Barriers to employing e-participation in the Iranian planning system

e-Participation has been employed by many planning authorities across the world to facilitate engagement of people in decision-making processes. Previous studies on e-participation have shown that this form participation can increase level flexibility and inclusiveness public engagements, make government interventions more responsive citizens' needs, accountability. While there is a growing use systems developed countries, its application developing countries remained very limited. This paper explores barriers employing context country's system, using Iran as case study. We conducted interviews with different actors, including both public- private-sector planners, investigate what they perceive such barriers. The results study show primary are attitudes towards participation, structure culture staff capacity engage through e-participation. concludes series recommendations regarding how these be overcome.