In many parts of the world there is an increasing demand for participation in public policy making. However, little use of decision support technologies is employed. Nowadays, the growing availability of ICTs is making possible that group decision support tools can be deployed on the web or PDAs to incorporate citizens and stakeholders in such decisions. This session focuses on contributions aim at designing tools and methodologies based on decision analysis principles to support participatory decision processes in political issues.

This session will touch from a GDN perspective some of the key issues in e-participation: e-voting, e-participatory budgeting, facilitating participation with simpler systems and a comparison of participatory and e-participatory processes.

Themes and topics of relevance include:

• Designing of participatory decision processes using a GDN perspective
• Compared studies on participatory instruments
• Web based systems to support public in societal decision making
• Evaluation of participatory processes and support tools in e-democracy
• Experimental and field Studies

Submission

Demo-net members are invited to submit a 2 pages extended abstract (about 1400 words) no later than April 30th to rios@cs.aau.dk 

Organiser

Jesus Rios, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark