Title: The sustainable development of an e-democracy system

Authors: Suree Funilkul, Wichian Chutimaskul

Addresses: School of Information Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), 126 Prachauthit Rd., Bangmod, Tungkru, Bangkok 10140, Thailand. ' School of Information Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), 126 Prachauthit Rd., Bangmod, Tungkru, Bangkok 10140, Thailand

Abstract: This paper addresses the concept of developing an efficient and effective e-democracy system. The concepts of three main e-democracy developments and control framework of COBIT 4.1 are employed for constructing our sustainable e-democracy development, which consists of four external components. Such components are development environment, stakeholder and policy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and development methodology. The underlying e-democracy applications are introduced based on democratic principles and the OECD framework of citizens| participation. Furthermore, the quality of an e-democracy system is established by using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the e-government Web Quality Assessment Model (e-government WebQAM). This sustainable development and quality of an e-democracy system can be used as guidelines for successful e-democracy development.

Keywords: e-democracy; e-government; sustainable development; framework; COBIT 4.1; TAM; technology acceptance model; quality models; ICT; information technology; communications technology; methodology; policy; electronic democracy; electronic government; WebQAM; web quality assessment; sustainability.

DOI: 10.1504/IJED.2009.028547

International Journal of Electronic Democracy, 2009 Vol.1 No.2, pp.203 - 216

Published online: 18 Sep 2009 *

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