Empowering Civic Participation in the Policy Making Process through Social Media
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چکیده
The Web as medium has a high significance in everyday life of the digital society. The circumstance of growing visibility of social media covers a high potential in the range of a more citizen centric and socially rooted policy making. These potentials call for novel tools with the capability to analyze society’s input and predict the possible impact of policies. The paper describes a prototype tool set for policy makers that utilizes social media technologies and methods to empower public engagement, enable cross media platform publishing, feedback tracking / analysis and provide decision support.
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