Young people and e-democracy: Creating a culture of participation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3183, Issue , 2004, Pages 15-22

  Masters, Zoë ^a   Macintosh, Ann ^a   Smith, Ella ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS;

BEST PRACTICES; E-DEMOCRACY; EVALUATION RESEARCH; FIELD TESTING; ON-LINE TOOLS; SCOTLAND; SUPPORTING SCHEME; YOUNG PEOPLES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 35048836643     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30078-6_3     Document Type: Article

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