Participation and e-democracy how to utilize web 2.0 for policy decision-making
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This paper investigates in how to utilize ICT and Web 2.0 technologies and e-democracy software for policy decisionmaking. It introduces a cutting edge decision-making system that integrates the practice of e-petitions, e-consultation, e-rulemaking, e-voting, and proxy voting. The paper demonstrates how under precondition of direct democracy through the use this system the collective intelligence (CI) of a population would be gathered and used throughout the policy process.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009