1960’s, an increasing apathy and feeling of alienation among citizens has led to the so-called democratic deficit (Sttefek et Al, 2008), which has entailed an increasing interest in promoting participatory processes, which allow citizens to take part in public policy decision making. Participatory processes are on a clear rise for reasons including: increase of legitimacy, acceptance and transparency in decisions made; approaching decisions to citizens; taking advantage of the local knowledge that citizens might have; educate politicians, remembering them that they are elected to represent citizens and mitigate patronage; educate citizens to make them understand that decisions entail both benefits and costs that need to be somehow balanced; enhance diversity, including additional perspectives on a problem; and, reduce the apathy which causes the above mentioned democratic deficit.
A reference example is that of participatory budgets (PBs), which allow citizens to take part in making decisions on how part of a public budget is spent. There are many variants of PBs, as described in Alfaro et Al (2010) three of which (Salford, Porto Alegre and Getafe) will be shown here. Another important issue is that little technology has been used in all experiences that we have analyzed. This leads us to describe a generic configurable architecture for e-Participatory budgeting support.
1960’s, an increasing apathy and feeling of alienation among citizens has led to the so-called democratic deficit (Sttefek et Al, 2008), which has entailed an increasing interest in promoting participatory processes, which allow citizens to take part in public policy decision making. Participatory processes are on a clear rise for reasons including: increase of legitimacy, acceptance and transparency in decisions made; approaching decisions to citizens; taking advantage of the local knowledge that citizens might have; educate politicians, remembering them that they are elected to represent citizens and mitigate patronage; educate citizens to make them understand that decisions entail both benefits and costs that need to be somehow balanced; enhance diversity, including additional perspectives on a problem; and, reduce the apathy which causes the above mentioned democratic deficit.A reference example is that of participatory budgets (PBs), which allow citizens to take part in making decisions on how part of a public budget is spent. There are many variants of PBs, as described in Alfaro et Al (2010) three of which (Salford, Porto Alegre and Getafe) will be shown here. Another important issue is that little technology has been used in all experiences that we have analyzed. This leads us to describe a generic configurable architecture for e-Participatory budgeting support.
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