Title: Securisation of the discussion stage in e-cognocracy

Authors: Alberto Turon, Jose Maria Moreno-Jimenez, Joan Josep Piles, Jose Ruiz, Jose Luis Salazar

Addresses: Grupo Decision Multicriterio Zaragoza, Universidad de Zaragoza, Gran Via no. 2, 50005 Zaragoza, Spain. ' Grupo Decision Multicriterio Zaragoza, Universidad de Zaragoza, Gran Via no. 2, 50005 Zaragoza, Spain. ' Grupo de Tecnologia de las Comunicaciones, Universidad de Zaragoza, Maria de Luna no. 1, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain. ' Grupo de Tecnologia de las Comunicaciones, Universidad de Zaragoza, Maria de Luna no. 1, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain. ' Grupo de Tecnologia de las Comunicaciones, Universidad de Zaragoza, Maria de Luna no. 1, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain

Abstract: E-cognocracy (Moreno-Jimenez, 2003, 2004, 2006) is a cognitive democracy oriented to the extraction and sharing of knowledge associated with the scientific resolution of public decision making problems related with the governance of society. This model of democracy takes advantage of the potential of the knowledge society by means of the incorporation of the knowledge and the preferences of the actors involved in the decision making process. This is carried out by using different rounds to incorporate the preferences and a collaborative tool for the discussion stage. The technological security of the voting process has been studied in previous papers of our research group (Piles et al., 2006, 2007; Moreno-Jimenez et al., 2008; Salazar et al., 2008). Now we cope with the security of the discussion stage, taking into account either registered and non-registered individuals.

Keywords: e-cognocracy; e-democracy; security; voting; social computing; discussion; electronic democracy; cognitive democracy; public decision making; preferences; collaboration; registration; online democracy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSHC.2010.032684

International Journal of Social and Humanistic Computing, 2010 Vol.1 No.3, pp.219 - 231

Published online: 12 Apr 2010 *

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