Democratic citizenship community: a social network to promote e-deliberative process

ABSTRACT

Social networks, such as virtual communities, permit connections between citizen and government. Integrating consultative and deliberative environments for popular participation in democratic issues and creating virtual communities for warranting better relationship among members make it possible to model decision-making processes. For this reason, the Democratic Citizenship Community (DCC) was developed, based on the Government-Citizen Interactive Model. The DCC has interaction and communication resources such as citizens' profiles, debate, voting, information library, socialization space and users' help. This research analyzes the DCC social network in a pilot case study and presents initial discussions about this system.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Human Factors

Keywords:
decision-making, e-government, social networks, virtual community