Audience-specific online community design
Communications of the ACM - Supporting community and building social capital
Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies
Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications
Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications
Social Profiles of Virtual Communities
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 7 - Volume 7
Motivating participation by displaying the value of contribution
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DemIL: an online interaction language between citizen and government
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Encouraging participation in virtual communities
Communications of the ACM - Spam and the ongoing battle for the inbox
A quality inspection method to evaluate e-government sites
EGOV'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Electronic Government
Comunidade democrática cidadã (CDC): um ambiente para consulta e votação na web
Proceedings of the VIII Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Identifying discourse mistakes in web debates: moderation in the DCC
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Democratic citizenship community: a social network to promote e-deliberative process
Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Social Networks: Making Connections between Citizens, Data and Government
Information Polity - Government 2.0: Making Connections between citizens, data and government
Impact assessment in public policy: Towards a Web 2.0 application
Information Polity - Government 2.0: Making Connections between citizens, data and government
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The participation of citizens in government issues can bring to life the principles of democracy, making use also of the electronic channels. However, when the citizens are asked to participate in consultative and deliberative processes, they individually receive information from different communication media. Thus, it is not possible to verify whether the individuals have reached maturity in the issues discussed on the Web. The purpose of this paper is to show our proposal to evaluate the degree of maturity during the democratic decision-making process on the Web, engaging citizens by using a virtual community. The 'Democratic Citizenship Community' (DCC) was specified based on an investigation of a Government-Citizen Interaction Model, oriented toward discussion and voting. The Degree of Maturity Method (DMM), used to evaluate the DCC, is structured into levels: Immature, Poorly Mature, Mature and Sufficiently Mature, using a set of metrics to verify the effectiveness of the e-Participation process.