Electronic participatory budgeting (e-PPB): increasing people participation in the decision-making process Online publication date: Wed, 16-Nov-2005
by Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia, Fernando B. Pinto, Inhauma Neves Ferraz
International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC), Vol. 1, No. 4, 2005
Abstract: The advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have raised new expectations to bring democracy to its full potential. This paper discusses three unsuccessful attempts to revive Athenian democracy using ICT to deal with participation scalability. We argue that the lack of the appropriate technological layers caused disappointments and distrust in the population.
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