Allowing continuous evaluation of citizen opinions through social networks

  • Authors:
  • Francesco Buccafurri;Lidia Fotia;Gianluca Lax

  • Affiliations:
  • DIMET, University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy;DIMET, University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy;DIMET, University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

  • Venue:
  • EGOVIS'12/EDEM'12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint international conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective and Electronic Democracy, and Proceedings of the 2012 Joint international conference on Advancing Democracy, Government and Governance
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Implementing concepts like e-governance and e-democracy requires to effectively allow the continuous participation of citizens in decisional processes of the community. In this context, a crucial aspect is the possibility of receiving the opinion of citizens in several situations. To do this, a massive adoption of existing e-voting systems is in fact unfeasible, but the guarantee that the basic security features are supported, is anyway necessary. In this paper, we propose a lightweight e-voting system relying on existing social networks which appears promising for the above applications. Indeed, our proposal solves the trade-off between security and complexity arising from the scenario of continuous opinion evaluation.