Liberopinion: A web platform for elections 2.0

Author

De Sousa, Artur Jorge Afonso ; Gouveia, Luís Manuel Borges

Author_Institution

Inst. Politec. de Viseu, Escola Super. de Tecnol. e Gestao de Viseu, Viseu, Portugal

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The platform Liberopinion-Elections consists of a Rich Internet Application which seeks to bring together the stakeholders in a political election allowing, in a single place, multi-directional and structured communication between them. Based on a citizen and candidate approach, the platform Liberopinion-Elections enables collaborative interaction between these stakeholders through questions, answers, proposals, ratings and comments with the aim of fostering communication, deliberation and participation. In this paper, the main features of this application are described and the results of a case study about its use in the election for Mayor of Viseu held in 2009 are presented.

Keywords

Internet; government data processing; groupware; politics; Liberopinion-Elections; Web platform; collaborative interaction; multidirectional communication; political election; rich Internet application; structured communication; Facebook; Internet; Irrigation; Nominations and elections; Presses; Twitter; Visualization; Deliberação; Eleições 2.0; eDemocracia; eParticiapação;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2010 5th Iberian Conference on

Conference_Location

Santiago de Compostela

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7227-7

Type

conf

Filename

5556648