Deliberative Community Networks for local governance
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The paper outlines Deliberative Community Networks as the evolution of Community Networks, as they have been the ‘90es of the 20th century. Deliberative Community Networks aim at overcoming the limits ‘traditional’ Community Networks have shown in involving citizens in the decision making process by local institutions and at supporting the government bodies actually committed to involve citizens in policy making. The papr also outlines the logical architecture of the software platform we intend to develop to manage Deliberative Community Networks and the first bricks we plan to use to implement it
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