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Democracy in international organizations for regional integration: use of information and communication technologies: ICTs (internet) for an effectiveness of the fundamental right of political inclusion (e-participation)

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This paper aims to understand, in the context of International Organizations for Regional Integration (IOs) what is the contribution of Internet use for the effectiveness of the fundamental right of political inclusion, as well as pointing out a country that may be used as a reference for the proposal of a public policy aimed at ruling Open Government in Regional Integration (e.g Portugal and Brazil).
Having this in mind, will be done used a deductive method and a case study aiming at a confrontation of theory with practice in regional blocks. It will be verified that partial results point out that Internet is an instrument of amelioration of democratic systems. However, E-Gov policies become necessary (legal framework, inclusion, digital education) as well as new strategies at local level such as the European Plan of Action (e. g The Netherlands first country in the e-participacion índex of ONU). Based on the success cases is expected to promote new spaces of interaction and popular deliberation, which protrude Portugal and Brazil.

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        ICEGOV '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
        October 2014
        563 pages
        ISBN:9781605586113
        DOI:10.1145/2691195
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        1. democracy
        2. informational society
        3. open government
        4. regional integration processes

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