Title: Investigating the mobile side of e-participation

Authors: Maria Ntalian; Constantina Costopoulou; Sotiris Karetsos

Addresses: Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens, 75, Iera Odos Str., 118 55, Athens, Greece ' Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens, 75, Iera Odos Str., 118 55, Athens, Greece ' Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens, 75, Iera Odos Str., 118 55, Athens, Greece

Abstract: Electronic participation is evolving around the globe, providing opportunities and challenges for civic engagement in decision-making and service delivery. As the use of mobile technology grows rapidly, a new dimension of electronic participation has emerged, namely mobile participation. Local governments have not reached to a clear strategy on how to design successful mobile services for participation. In this light, this study attempts to propose a way for exploiting mobile participation in municipal governments. It presents e-participation and m-participation progress in 325 Greek municipal governments. It concludes to a framework for introducing efficient and effective mobile participation applications so as to make local societies more inclusive.

Keywords: electronic participation; mobile participation; local government; municipal government; websites; mobile apps.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2017.088215

International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2017 Vol.9 No.3/4, pp.210 - 228

Received: 06 May 2016
Accepted: 14 Apr 2017
Published online: 29 Nov 2017 *

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