Establishing political deliberation systems: Key problems

16th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Rose, Jeremy ^a   Sæbø, Øystein ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Deliberation systems; Eparticipation; Political discussion forums; System design; System management

Indexed keywords

DISCUSSION FORUM; E-DEMOCRACY; E-GOVERNMENT; E-PARTICIPATION; EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY; MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES; PLATFORM DESIGN; PLATFORM MANAGEMENT; POLITICAL PROCESS; STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT; SYSTEM MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84870639135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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