Design and metrics of a 'democratic citizenship community' in support of deliberative decision-making

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

Volumn 4656 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 388-400

  Maciel, Cristiano ^a   Garcia, Ana Cristina Bicharra ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Community; Decisionmaking; Deliberation; e Democracy; e Participation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET;

E-DEMOCRACY; E-PARTICIPATION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 38049095063     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74444-3_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (24)

1. Andrews, D.: Audience-specific online community design. Commun. ACM 45(4), 64-68 (2002)
2. CGI (Assessed in January 2007), available on http://www.cgi.br/in Portuguese/
3. Ceri, S., Fratemali, P., Bongio, A., Brambilla, M., Comai, S., Matera, M.: Designing DataIntensive Web Applications. Morgan-Kaufmann, San Francisco (2002)
4. de Souza, C.S., Preece, J.: A framework for analyzing and understanding online communities. Interacting with Computers 16, 579-610 (2004)
5. Fulk, J., Schmitz, J., Steinfield, C.: A social influence model of technology use. In: Fulk, J., Steinfield, C. (eds.) Organizations and Communication Technology, pp. 117-142. Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CT (1990)
6. Garcia, A.C.B., Maciel, C., Pinto, B.P.: A Quality Inspection Method to Evaluate e-Government Sites. In: Wimmer, M.A., Traunmüller, R., Grönlund, Å., Andersen, K.V. (eds.) EGOV 2005. LNCS, vol. 3591, pp. 198-209. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
7. Godwin, M.: Nine principles for making virtual communities work.Wired 2.06, pp. 72-73 (1994)
8. Hummel, J., Lechner, U.: Social Profiles of Virtual Communities. In: Proceeding of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, p. 172b. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos (2002)
9. ISO/IEC 9126: International Organization for Standardization. Information Technology -Software Product Evaluation- Quality Characteristics and Guidelines for their use, ISO/IEC 9126 (1991)
10. Kim, A.J.: Community Building on the Web. Peachpit Press, Berkeley, CA (2000)
11. Koh, J., Kim, Y., Butler, B., Bock, G.: Encouraging participation in virtual communities. Commun. ACM 50(2), 68-73 (2007)
12. Maciel, C., Garcia, A.C.B.: DemIL: an Online Interaction Language between Citizen and Government. In: 15th International Word Wide Web Conference. Proceedings of The International Word Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, pp. 849-850. ACM Press, New York (2006)
13. Maciel, C., Garcia, A.C.B.: Modeling of a Democratic Citizenship Community to facilitate the consultative and deliberative process in the Web. In: Cardoso, J., Cordeiro, J., Filipe, J. (eds.) INSTICC (org.). 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Funchal, Portugal, pp. 387-394 (2007)
14. Nielsen, J.: Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute. Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox (2006) (assessed November 2006), available on http://www.useit. com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html
15. OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (assessed May 2006), avaliable on http://www.oecd.org
16. Powazek, D.M.: Design for Community. New Riders, Indianapolis (2002)
17. Preece, J., Maloney-Krichmar, D.: Online communities: Design, theory, and practice. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 10(4), article 1 (assessed May 2005), available on http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue4/preece.html
18. Preece, J.: Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability. Wiley, Chichester (2000)
19. Rashid, A.M., Ling, K., Tassone, R.D., Resnick, P., Kraut, R., Riedl, J.: Motivating participation by displaying the value of contribution. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '06, Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006, pp. 955-958. ACM Press, New York (2006)
20. Riley, T.B.: Report on e-Democracy Seminar. eGovernment Unit, Information Society Directorate General, European Commision (org.). Brussels (2004)
21. Rowe, G., Frewer, L.: Public participation methods: a framework for evaluation. Science, Technology & Human Values 25 (Winter 2000)
22. Segaard, S.B.: Citizen Participation ICT and New Opportunities for Citizen Participation. In: Wimmer, M.A., Traunmüller, R., Grönlund, Å., Andersen, K.V. (eds.) EGOV 2005. LNCS, vol. 3591, pp. 205-212. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
23. Shneiderman, B.: Leonard's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing. Technologies. MIT Press, Cambridge (2002)
24. United Nations: UN Global EGovernment Readiness Report 2005: From E-government to E-Inclusion. United Nations Publications (2005) (assessed in set 2006), available on http://www.unpan.org/