Abstract. We describe a web-based system to support groups in elaborating participatory budgets. Rather than using physical meetings with voting mechanisms, we promote virtual meet...
Open and fair elections are paramount to modern democracy. Although some people claim that the penciland-paper systems used in countries such as Canada and UK are still the best m...
: The paper addresses the experience of Estonia in strengthening democracy through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to bring decision-making closer to th...
It is generally considered that a key component of electronic government in the future will be electronic voting, as a means of facilitating the participation of citizens in electi...
Today's computer network technologies are sociologically founded on hunter-gatherer principles; common users may be possible subjects of surveillance and sophisticated Interne...