Liberopinion: a web platform for enhancing e-Democracy

Artur Afonso Sousa ESTV [email_address] Pedro Agante Libertrium [email_address] www.liberopinion.net Liberopinion: a web platform for enhancing e-Democracy Luís Borges Gouveia University Fernando Pessoa [email_address]

Enable independent online interaction between the stakeholders in a democratic process
Encourage citizen participation
Narrow the gap between citizens and politicians
Foster debate, deliberation and knowledge sharing
Create a wide community about eDemocracy
This Project aims to

Governmeter enables monitoring and deliberation about the government performance Elections concentrates the main stakeholders of an election in a single place and enables multidirectional communication

Concentrate in an independent online channel the stakeholders in a general election
Give voice to the citizens , enabling them to submit questions about their concerns through an independent, structured and civilised channel
Allow citizens to compare , side-by-side, the candidates’ answers to the questions (at least to the best questions as voted by the community)
Create means for citizens to contribute with suggestions to solve the problems faced by the community
Allow citizens to compare comments by the candidates to these suggestions (at lest to the best ideas as voted by the community)
Enable citizens to compare in a single place and with a structured format the measures proposed in the electoral program of the candidates
Elections – Main Objectives

Elections

Citizens submit questions and ideas over a range of pre-defined topics.
Citizes vote their interest on the questions and suggestions in order to create the Top of the most relevant questions and suggestions
Candidates answer the questions and comment the suggestions
Candidates publish their electoral program organized by topics
Citizens compare the candidates’ electoral programs
Debate zones
For candidates
For citizens and candidates
Elections – Main Features

Elections – Timeline September 2009 – parlamentary elections in Portugal (test Version) October 2009 – local elections in Portugal (test Version in VISEU) October 2010 – Partnership SAPO December 2010 – Elections for Head of the Portuguese Medical Association January 2011 - Portuguese Presidential elections

Elections in real-time – candidates in Portuguese national elections (October 2009)

Future work - Elections
Support for candidate-staff workflow
How to prevent questions and suggestions with the same content?
How to manage a large amount of questions and suggestions?

Governmeter

Allow citizens to verify and to analyze the performance of the different governments, including the current one, for each statistical indicator .
Allow citizens to analyze and comment if the objectives set by the government in the electoral program, as well as the ones defined during the legislative period are being fulfilled.
Provide the means for the community to debate in a structured, civilized and open way all measures being proposed by the government and deliberate their advantages and disadvantages.
The measures include the ones proposed in the electoral program, as well as the ones undertaken during the legislative period
Governmeter – Main Objectives

Main Features:
Graphic display of the main statistical indicators .
Citizens submit their own analysis about the evolution of the statistical indicators.
Citizens give their point of view about whether the Government objectives have been fulfilled.
Citizens debate the measures proposed by the Government and Parlament.
Governmeter – Main Features

Future work - Governmeter
Public data API
Semantic integration between the three areas
Support e-petitions

Interaction with existing social networks (Twitter, Facebook)
Incorporation of features of social networks such as, follow citizen and candidate, follow question, among others.
Receive automatic update notifications about followed users and questions
All citizen submissions are subject to moderation under the Terms of Service
Elections and Governmeter – Additional Features

Liberopinion - Summary
We believe that it is useful for society to have an application that unites , in a single, neutral and civilized place , the stakeholders in the electoral process so as to allow multidirectional communication between them.
We consider that it is necessary to have an online presence that promotes, in a single, neutral and civilized place, ongoing monitoring and debate about the government activity .

Thank y u
www.liberopinion.net [email_address]

Interface

Interface – submit question

Interface - answers

Liberopinion - Governmeter

Beta version
Two versions, parliamentary and one local election
3000 unique visitors and 380 registered users
Parliamentary elections: 118 questions, 43 proposals, 1 active candidate
Viseu local elections: 2 active candidates answering almost all the questions (97% from a total of 33 questions)
Case study: the Portuguese 2009 elections

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Liberopinion: a web platform for enhancing e-Democracy

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