Foresight tools for participative policy-making in inter-governmental processes in developing countries: Lessons learned from the eLAC Policy Priorities Delphi

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 880-896

  Hilbert, Martin ^a   Miles, Ian ^b   Othmer, Julia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c United Nations Economic Commission For Latin America and the Caribbean Chile   (Chile)

Author keywords

Delphi; Development; Foresight; Governmental; ICT; Information Society; Latin America and the Caribbean; Multi stakeholder

Indexed keywords

DELPHI; DEVELOPMENT; FORESIGHT; GOVERNMENTAL; ICT; INFORMATION SOCIETY; LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN; MULTI-STAKEHOLDER;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PUBLIC POLICY; TRANSPARENCY;

DECISION MAKING;

ACCOUNTABILITY; ACTION PLAN; CIVIL SOCIETY; COLLECTIVE ACTION; DECISION MAKING; DELPHI ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS; INTERNET; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLICY MAKING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 67651166654     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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