Digital Citizenship and its Applications to analyse Government-Civil Society Engagement Governance for Sustainable Democracy, Inclusion, and Development in Africa

As recent decades have seen a growing rise on the internet, developed and developing countries' citizenship approach traditionally designed as the relationship between people and the nation-state based on dutiful Citizens has shifted to new forms for digital citizenship around personalised life politics as the utmost trend in political/public affairs. Digital Citizenship stresses the ability and right to engage positively, critically, competently, and participate in society online, which incorporates social inclusion, opens different kinds of collectivity and facilitates new modes of civic participation with a significant impact on democratic politics. However, marginalised people still face participation challenges in the digital environment. Investigating consultation, collaboration, and monitoring ICT-related public service decision-making and implementation process in the realm of government-civil society engagement governance under digital citizenship to enable sustainable democracy, inclusion, and development are relevant to understanding and interpreting the specific digital citizenship engagement between the government, market, and civic sector for the social inclusion discourse in this research. Drawing on documents in Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda, and South Africa, I will analyse the data with policy documents and scholarly texts over time. Then, I will prepare a presentation about the implication of consultation, collaboration, and monitoring in government-civil society engagement governance under digital citizenship to enable public service decision-making and implementation for sustainable democracy, inclusion, and development. I will briefly outline the process of document and content analysis I developed and then support it with some obstacles. Furthermore, I will distinguish safeguard-related electronic consultative forum, ICT-mediated citizen feedback, and citizen-led monitoring that favour participatory community development and digital austerity policy that may impact efficient ICT-based public service decision-making and implementation process for sustainable democracy, inclusion, and developments in Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda, and South Africa. It reflects the enforcement of pluralism, citizen-powered democracy, and the tradition of liberalism hierarchy where the government target digital citizens' existence and individual responsibilities that may infringe equal opportunities and democratic political participation with the help of digital technology in disfavour of sustainable development and impair (disadvantaged) citizens participatory inclusion, belongings, democratic value, and cohesive society in times of contemporary crisis-related society.