A System to Support e-Democracy

Characterizing eParticipation

“…Discovery of technology solutions (e.g., software architectures) to participatory computer systems Paralic and Sabol (2001), Paralic, Sabol, and Mach (2002), Paralic, Sabol, and Mach (2003) Information systems Technology diffusion (Rogers, 1995) Integrating ICTs with governmental policies and services Chadwick (2003), Chadwick and May (2003), Schaupp and Lemuria (2005) Technology adoption (Markus & Robey, 1988) Beliefs, attitudes, opportunities, and threats to adoption of technology Schaupp and Lemuria (2005), Svensson and Leenes (2003) Social cognitive theory (Hemingway, 1998) Reconciles human action and human agency to explain how citizens and governments impact systems development Whyte and Macintosh (2003) Actor network theory (Latour, 2005) Influence of deliberative democracy models on democratic behavior Gro¨nlund (2003aGro¨nlund ( , 2003b Social and political philosophy Kant's doctrine of right and his theory of the state (Kant, 1996) The principle of publicity in the realm of law or the state that is instantiated by the participation of citizens through discussion and decision-making Gimmler (2001) Habermas public sphere (1984,1996) Philosophical background of participation, asks how the Internet may alter the practice of politics Ainsworth et al (2005), Albrecht (2006), Dahlberg (2001), DiMaggio, Hargittai, Neuman, andRobinson (2001), Gimmler (2001), Howard (2005), Jensen (2003b, Lourenco and Costa (2006), Pejout (2004), Polat (2005), Siapera (2005) Philosophy of information (Dretske, 1981) A critical investigation of the conceptual nature and basic impact of information including its dynamics and utilization in...…”

“…Interpretive: Research aimed at examining the roles and perspectives of eParticipation stakeholders, and developing them into networks of explanations. Lourenco and Costa (2006) Content management Support of document publication Albrecht (2006), Macintosh et al (2003), Paralic and Sabol (2001), Paralic et al (2002), Saebo and Paivarinta (2005) Data mining Political and demographic information Howard (2005) Decision support systems Community decision making in contentious issues Evans et al (2004), Turoff et al (2002) Geographic information systems Visualization of spatial data, for example in land use planning processes…”

“…of citizen input to policy-makingParalic and Sabol (2001),Paralic et al (2002) Visualization(including virtual reality) Visualizing future developments, typically for design and planning purposes Hudson-Smith et al (2005) Web logging Political activism on the net Johnson and Kaye (2004), Macintosh et al (2005), Paralic et al (2003), StromerGalley (2000) Web virtual meeting places (chat-rooms, discussion forums) Development of virtual political communities as supplement to conventional Aikens (1998), Ainsworth et al (2005), Chang (2005), Dahlberg (2001),Gro¨nlund (2003aGro¨nlund ( , 2003b,Jensen (2003b),Klein (1999),Luhrs et al (2003),,Masters et al (2004),Papacharissi (2004),Paralic and Sabol (2001),Paralic et al (2003),Ranerup (1999),Roeder et al (2005),Rose and Saebø (2005),Saebo and Paivarinta (2005),Seaton (2005), Stromer-Galley (2000),Tambouris and Gorilas (2003),Westholm (2002) …”

Security Requirements for a Semantic Service-oriented Architecture

“…In contrast to the monolithic architecture developed within the research project Webocracy [8], in which a classic client/server technology was used as the underlying architectural paradigm, Access-eGov is required to be less failure-prone. The service-brokering middleware of this trans-national semantic e-Government platform requires a large-scale networking architecture that is available at all times.…”

Knowledge Enhanced E-government Portal

“…Our approach to knowledge management in the e-Government context supports most of the activities mentioned above. Based on this approach, a Web-based system Webocrat 1 [11] has been designed and implemented. It is being now tested on pilot applications at Wolverhampton (UK) and in Kosice (Slovakia).…”