The increasing shift of attention from e-government to e-governance, even at the local level, requires technological solutions designed to support deliberative processes. We believe that to answer the request for local governance it is necessary to put at stake the background accumulated by community networks for undertaking the development (the design, implementation and testing) of a so-cio-technical, computer-enabled, trusted environment for e-participation enriched with deliberative tools. We call this environment Deliberative Community Net-work, in order to stress that its main goal is to overcome the intrinsic limits of community and civic networks by introducing deliberative facilities that provide support to the decision-making processes. The paper presents the conceptual framework behind the design of Deliberative Community Networks, their logical architecture and a first prototype developed for supporting public dialog in the occasion of the 2006 Municipal Elections in Milan, Italy. The feedbacks from this experience, presented in the conclusions, are the input for the next release of the system currently under development.
Enriching Community Networks by supporting deliberation / F. De Cindio, A. De Marco, L.A. Ripamonti - In: Communities and technologies 2007 : proceedings of the Third Communities and Technologies Conference, Michigan State University 2007 / [a cura di] C. Steinfield, B.T. Pentland, M. Ackerman, N. Contractor. - London : Springer, 2007. - ISBN 978-1-84628-904-0. - pp. 395-418 (( convegno Communities & Technology 2007 tenutosi a Lansing, Michigan, USA nel 2007 [10.1007/978-1-84628-905-7_20].
Enriching Community Networks by supporting deliberation
F. De CindioPrimo
;L.A. RipamontiUltimo
2007
Abstract
The increasing shift of attention from e-government to e-governance, even at the local level, requires technological solutions designed to support deliberative processes. We believe that to answer the request for local governance it is necessary to put at stake the background accumulated by community networks for undertaking the development (the design, implementation and testing) of a so-cio-technical, computer-enabled, trusted environment for e-participation enriched with deliberative tools. We call this environment Deliberative Community Net-work, in order to stress that its main goal is to overcome the intrinsic limits of community and civic networks by introducing deliberative facilities that provide support to the decision-making processes. The paper presents the conceptual framework behind the design of Deliberative Community Networks, their logical architecture and a first prototype developed for supporting public dialog in the occasion of the 2006 Municipal Elections in Milan, Italy. The feedbacks from this experience, presented in the conclusions, are the input for the next release of the system currently under development.
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