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Electronic participatory budgeting (e-PPB): increasing people participation in the decision-making process

2005; Inderscience Publishers; Volume: 1; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1504/ijwbc.2005.008114

1741-8216

Ana Cristina Bicharra García, Fernando Bicharra Pinto, Inhaúma Neves Ferraz,

E-Government and Public Services

The advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have raised new expectations to bring democracy to its full potential. This paper discusses three unsuccessful attempts to revive Athenian democracy using ICT to deal with participation scalability. We argue that the lack of the appropriate technological layers caused disappointments and distrust in the population.