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Networked ICT to Foster e-Democracy?

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Electronic Government (EGOV 2004)

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Democracy is an evolving normative project with lots of facets. Using and shaping networked ICT to enhance democracy is a challenging task. It needs action research as well as theoretical considerations. It needs societal pull and technological push. It needs research funding and self-organised grass-root activities. It needs both an administration oriented approach of development and an autonomous citizen-oriented approach. This has to be balanced.

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  1. Fraunhofer FIT, 53754, St. Augustin, Germany

    Peter Mambrey

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  1. Institute of Informatics in Business and Government, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Roland Traunmüller

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Mambrey, P. (2004). Networked ICT to Foster e-Democracy?. In: Traunmüller, R. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3183. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30078-6_6

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