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Public Participatory Decision Making

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Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT 2014)

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Within the realm of e-government, the development has moved towards testing new means for democratic decision-making, like e-panels, electronic discussion forums, and polls. Although such new developments seem promising, they are not problem-free, and the outcomes are seldom used in the subsequent formal political procedures. Nevertheless, more formalized process models offer a promising potential when it comes to structuring and supporting transparency of decision processes in order to facilitate the integration of the public into decision-making procedures in a reasonable and manageable way. This presentation presents an outline for an integrated framework for public decision making to: (a) provide tools for citizens to organize discussion and create opinions; (b) enable governments, authorities, and institutions to better analyse these opinions; and (c) enable governments to account for this information in planning and societal decision making by employing a process model for structured public decision making.

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  1. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, IIASA, Schlossplatz 1, 2361, Laxenburg, Austria

    Love Ekenberg

  2. Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Love Ekenberg

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  1. Iwate Prefectural University, Takizawa, Japan

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  2. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Baharu, Malaysia

    Ali Selamat

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Ekenberg, L. (2015). Public Participatory Decision Making. In: Fujita, H., Selamat, A. (eds) Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques. SoMeT 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 513. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17530-0_1

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