Mapping International Civic Technologies Platforms

Measuring Civic Knowledge among Young Adolescents in the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study

Democracy Models and Civic Technologies: Tensions, Trilemmas, and Trade-offs

This paper aims at connecting democratic theory with civic technologies in order to highlight the links between some theoretical tensions and trilemmas and design trade-offs. First, it reviews some tensions and ‘trilemmas’ raised by political philosophers and democratic theorists. Second, it considers both the role and the limitations of civic technologies in mitigating these tensions and trile...

Internet Voting Technologies and Civic Participation: The Users’ Perspective

In many places e-voting technologies are under development, and an intensive theoretical and normative debate is taking place about the pros and cons. We investigate the opinions of the users of this type of technologies, as this is crucial for the shaping and acceptance of the technology. We did not use a survey, but held 14 intensive discussion sessions in different countries with voters and ...

Grassroots Efforts in Contemporary Urban Mapping: An Analysis of Alternative Uses of Collaborative Platforms

Technologies have started to overlap new virtual communication and information layers on top of the urban physical territory, thus bringing along distinct possibilities of social organization. Regarding this phenomenon and intending to achieve improvement in a great variety of fields from Politics to Urban Planning, the terms of Smart or Digital Cities among others have been adopted, still with...

Mapping Pipeline Skeletons onto Heterogeneous Platforms

Mapping applications onto parallel platforms is a challenging problem, that becomes even more difficult when platforms are heterogeneous –nowadays a standard assumption. A high-level approach to parallel programming not only eases the application developer’s task, but it also provides additional information which can help realize an efficient mapping of the application. In this paper, we discus...