How IT allows E-Participation in Policy-Making Process

Assessing Patient Participation in Health Policy Decision-Making in Cyprus

Although the importance of patient participation in the design and evaluation of health programs and services is well-documented, there is scarcity of research with regard to patient association (PA) participation in health policy decision-making processes. To this end, the present study aimed to validate further a previously developed instrument as well as to investigate the degree of PA parti...

Structuring E-Participation in Policy Making through Argumentation

An important feature of democracies is that citizens can engage their Governments in dialogues about policies. They tend to do so in one of three ways: they may seek a justification; they may object to all or part of a policy; or they may make policy proposals of their own. For the first, the reply need only to state a justification. For the second, having offered the justification, the respond...

Using Argumentation to Structure E-Participation in Policy Making

Tools for e-participation are becoming increasingly important. In this paper we argue that existing tools exhibit a number of limitations, and that these can be addressed by basing tools on developments in the field of computational argumentation. After discussing the limitations, we present an argumentation scheme which can be used to justify policy proposals, and a way of modelling the domain...

Participation and e-democracy how to utilize web 2.0 for policy decision-making

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 intelligen...

Ubiquitous participation platform for Policy making