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Towards an Ontology to Support the Deployment of eParticipation Environments

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A strong democracy is created if citizens are able to interact among themselves and with the government by giving their opinions. In this context, eParticipation comes with ICTs to consolidate these interactions. However, there are problems in selecting such tools. One tool does not comprise all stages in an eParticipation process and using a set of tools allows us to cover them, but there are problems in selecting the appropriate tools. To do so, the initial step is to understand the domain in order to make this choice, and if we are able to use this knowledge in this context, we can provide more appropriate ICTs for an eParticipation process. This paper discusses the understanding of the eParticipation area, aggregating it in an ontology for the eParticipation domain, called ePDO. We describe the steps used to build this ontology and how this knowledge can be used to improve the deployment of eParticipation environments.

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  1. Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rua Passo da Pátria, 156, Bloco E - São Domingos, Niterói, RJ, Brazil

    Cleyton Slaviero & Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia

  2. Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Av. Fernando Correa da Costa, 2367, Boa Esperança, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil

    Cristiano Maciel

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  1. Center for Applied ICT (CAICT) and Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Howitzvej 60, 2000, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Kim Normann Andersen

  2. Institute of Legal Information, Theory and Techniques, ITTIG-CNR, Italian National Reserach Council, Via de’ Barucci 20, 50127, Florence, Italy

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  3. ESI/Informatics, Örebro University, 701 82, Örebro, Sweden

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  4. Faculty of Law, Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1000BA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Slaviero, C., Garcia, A.C.B., Maciel, C. (2011). Towards an Ontology to Support the Deployment of eParticipation Environments. In: Andersen, K.N., Francesconi, E., Grönlund, Å., van Engers, T.M. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6866. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22961-9_12

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