MODELING OF A DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP COMMUNITY TO FACILITATE THE CONSULTATIVE AND DELIBERATIVE PROCESS IN THE WEB

Cristiano Maciel, Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia

2007

Abstract

Electronic democracy should facilitate the discussion and participation of citizens as well as electronic voting in governmental issues. Governmental applications available in the Web have not evolved significantly toward real participation of citizens. The implementation of an e-democracy system can benefit from incorporating features from distinct information channels, especially television. This paper discusses an Interactive Government-Citizen Model that allows and stimulates the decision-making process between government and citizens, facilitating citizen participation through a virtual community and through integrated management of information in the Web environment. In this Model we identify the phases of an consultation and deliberative process as carried out through a Democratic Citizenship Community, the discussion of which is structured in a Government-Citizen Interaction Language known as DemIL. The degree of maturity initially proposed is structured in four levels: Immature, Poorly Mature, Mature and Sufficiently Mature. In order to measure the degree of maturity, by levels, we use a set of indicators, for later construction of an evaluation tool.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Maciel C. and Cristina Bicharra Garcia A. (2007). MODELING OF A DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP COMMUNITY TO FACILITATE THE CONSULTATIVE AND DELIBERATIVE PROCESS IN THE WEB . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-90-0, pages 387-394. DOI: 10.5220/0002387203870394

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={Cristiano Maciel and Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia},
title={MODELING OF A DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP COMMUNITY TO FACILITATE THE CONSULTATIVE AND DELIBERATIVE PROCESS IN THE WEB},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={387-394},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002387203870394},
isbn={978-972-8865-90-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - MODELING OF A DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP COMMUNITY TO FACILITATE THE CONSULTATIVE AND DELIBERATIVE PROCESS IN THE WEB
SN - 978-972-8865-90-0
AU - Maciel C.
AU - Cristina Bicharra Garcia A.
PY - 2007
SP - 387
EP - 394
DO - 10.5220/0002387203870394