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Subject: 	[DEMO-net] GDN call for papers
Date: 	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:52:49 +0200
From: 	Jeremy Rose <<email obscured>>
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  Call for Papers

  Demo-net Session on

  e-Participation: A GDN perspective

which will be held within the Joint International Conference on
Group Decision and Negotiation

/Coimbra, Portugal, June 17-20, 2008/

*Organiser:* Jesus Rios

Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark

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In many parts of the world there is an increasing demand for
participation in public policy making. However, little use of decision
support technologies is employed. Nowadays, the growing availability of
ICTs is making possible that group decision support tools can be
deployed on the web or PDAs to incorporate citizens and stakeholders in
such decisions. This session focuses on contributions aim at designing
tools and methodologies based on decision analysis principles to support
participatory decision processes in political issues.

This session will touch from a GDN perspective some of the key issues in
e-participation: e-voting, e-participatory budgeting, facilitating
participation with simpler systems and a comparison of participatory and
e-participatory processes.

Themes and topics of relevance include:

         Designing of participatory decision processes using a GDN
perspective

         Compared studies on participatory instruments

         Web based systems to support public in societal decision making

         Evaluation of participatory processes and support tools in
e-democracy

         Experimental and field Studies