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Can Online Map-Based Applications Improve Citizen Participation?

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E-Government: Towards Electronic Democracy (TCGOV 2005)

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Public participatory geographic information systems (PP GIS) aim at enlarging citizen’s involvement and participation in decision-making processes. In this paper we review existing online PP GIS applications and present the framework of our analysis. We concentrate on the aspects of interactivity of such applications and the GIS functionalities needed for their operation. First results of ongoing research exhibit that a vast majority of applications only deliver information to the citizen in a one-way communication process. Although the technology is available, only few applications fulfill criteria of our analysis to be classified as two-way communication tools. We conclude the paper with directions for our further research.

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  1. Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Jakob-Haringer Str. 5/III, 5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Renate Steinmann & Alenka Krek

  2. Z_GIS, Zentrum für Geoinformatik Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, 5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Thomas Blaschke

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Dominikanerplatz-3, I-39100, Bozen, Italy

    Michael Böhlen

  2. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

    Johann Gamper

  3. Institute of Statistics and Economics, University of Basel, Petersplatz 1, 4003, Basel, Switzerland

    Wolfgang Polasek

  4. Institute for IS Research, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstr. 1, 56070, Koblenz, Germany

    Maria A. Wimmer

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Steinmann, R., Krek, A., Blaschke, T. (2005). Can Online Map-Based Applications Improve Citizen Participation?. In: Böhlen, M., Gamper, J., Polasek, W., Wimmer, M.A. (eds) E-Government: Towards Electronic Democracy. TCGOV 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3416. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32257-3_3

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