Participatory Budget Formation Through the Web
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We describe a web-based system to support groups in elaborating participatory budgets. Rather than using physical meetings with voting mechanisms, we promote virtual meetings with explicit preference elicitation, guided negotiations and, only if consensus is not reached, vot-
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Technical Reports on Statistics and Decision Sciences
In part due to the increasing demand for citizen participation in public decision processes, participatory budgets are becoming increasingly popular in many municipalities. As there is little methodology available for this type of activities and Information Technologies are scarcely used in them, we describe a prototype of a web-based decision support tool for participatory budget problems. We ...
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