Evaluation of an E-Democracy Platform for European Cities

fonte:http://www.springerlink.com/content/b50rvhfgcwbvjl02/fulltext.pdf
acesso:23-10-2009

In this paper the experiences from evaluating an e-democracy
platform in two European cities are presented. The e-democracy platform under
evaluation consisted of three main applications, mainly tele-voting for realising
opinion poll petitions, tele-consultation and e-Forums. In this paper, the trials
performed in Barcelona and Brent borough of London are outlined. The
specification, development and trials evaluation of the e-democracy platform
were carried out within the IST EURO-CITI project. The main purpose of the
evaluation within the project was to prove the robustness of the technological
platform. However, the evaluation also provided some interesting results with
regards to the use of Internet in order to increase citizens? participation.
Although the purpose of the evaluation was not to study the current state and
potential of e-democracy, the lessons learnt could nevertheless be useful to
researchers and practitioners in the field.