Technological support for e-democracy: history and perspectives

Author

Gross, Tom

Author_Institution

German Nat. Res. Center for Inf. Technol., St. Augustin, Germany

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

391

Lastpage

395

Abstract

The interdependence of technology and society is unquestioned and has influenced research in technical sciences as well as social sciences for a long time. Technology to support citizen participation and e-democracy can potentially influence a whole political system. This paper discusses the role of technology with respect to citizen participation and e-democracy. Three core requirements for systems supporting citizen participation and e-democracy are specified and it is analysed how they are met by current systems. Community networks are introduced and their evolution is characterised as an example of sociotechnical evolution with respect to citizen participation and e-democracy

Keywords

history; politics; public administration; social aspects of automation; citizen participation; community networks; e-democracy; history; political system; sociotechnical evolution; technological support; Books; Cameras; History; Information technology; Microphones; Power generation economics; Printing machinery; Radio broadcasting; TV broadcasting; Telegraphy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2000. Proceedings. 11th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1529-4188

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0680-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.2000.875056

Filename

875056