Open source software movement in the French central and local government: a retrospective and prospective exploratory study
DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2008.021275 | Robert Deller, Veronique Guilloux | As one of Europe|s leaders in modernising government through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), France offers an opportunity to investigate how the use of Open Source software contributes to the process of improvi... | 1 - 13 |
Can Web 2.0 applications save e-democracy? A study of how new internet applications may enhance citizen participation in the political process online
DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2008.021275 | Yana Breindl, Pascal Francq | Increased citizen participation is a core element of both Web 2.0 applications and the concept(s) of e-democracy. This paper proposes a prospective view of how the Web 2.0 can be used in the context of e-democracy. After a review of both co... | 14 - 31 |
Techniques for mining the design of e-government services to enhance end-user experience
DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2008.021275 | Yiannis Panagis, Evangelos Sakkopoulos, Athanasios Tsakalidis, Giannis Tzimas, Spiros Sirmakessis, Miltiadis D. Lytras | The World Wide Web solutions are increasingly endorsed by several levels of government in order to deliver all kinds of the so-called e-government services. To face the complexity of joint design and development procedures, it is imperative... | 32 - 50 |
Anti-apathy approaches in representative democracies: e-governance and web 2.0 – facilitating citizen involvement?
DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2008.021275 | Bardo Fraunholz, Chandana Unnithan | Apathetic citizens disenchanted with conventional channels of participation in democratic processes are a predicament for mature representative democracies, as it reflects in the depleting voter turnouts in elections and participation in co... | 51 - 84 |
Revisiting |bridging or binding|: social capital and the uses of Instant Messenger (IM) and blog
DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2008.021275 | Hong-Chi Shiau | This study investigates two popular internet uses: Instant Messenger (IM) and web blogs, of which many functions were enabled by the advanced technologies. The results revealed that users in IM network are more likely to bond, whereas users... | 85 - 97 |
A unified framework for political parties to support e-democracy practices: the case of a Greek party
DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2008.021275 | C. Bouras, E. Giannaka, Th. Karounos, A. Priftis, V. Poulopoulos, Th. Tsiatsos | E-government and e-democracy constitute a central theme in information society policy at all levels: local, regional, national, European and even globally. To this direction, a variety of efforts have been made, and many systems have been d... | 98 - 117 |
