Discourse Support Systems for Deliberative Democracy
EGOV '02 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Electronic Government
Characterizing E-Participation in Policy-Making
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 5 - Volume 5
The generic information extraction system
MUC5 '93 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Message understanding
Understanding twitterTM use among parliament representatives: a genre analysis
ePart'11 Proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
ePart'11 Proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
Combining social and government open data for participatory decision-making
ePart'11 Proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
Extracting semantic knowledge from twitter
ePart'11 Proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
Argument visualization for eParticipation: towards a research agenda and prototype tool
ePart'11 Proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
Knowledge as power on the internet
ePart'11 Proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
Towards a structured online consultation tool
ePart'11 Proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
A review of opinion mining methods for analyzing citizens' contributions in public policy debate
ePart'11 Proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
Text-mining the voice of the people
Communications of the ACM
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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The use of information technology in governance generally, and in legislative processes specifically, has emerged as a significant trend over the last decade. The design and mobilization of such technologies in diverse settings have shown significant progress over time; however, such technologies and related practices continue to reflect limitations and difficulties. This study seeks to address a number of existing limitations in the use of technology in e-legislation. Using an applied research design combined with rapid applications development, the project examines avenues for e-participation in the current investigation-legislative practices of the Blue Ribbon Committee of the Philippine Senate. The project's applications development phase uses Web 2.0 as a platform, and combines it with electronic document and natural language techniques, thus enabling a shift from dominantly information dissemination approaches to multi-directional exchanges supported by new techniques like the automatic categorization of comments. The study explores the potential and the limitations of new technologies, and highlights the need for new institutional policies and capacity building to ensure the success and sustainability of e-participation initiatives. The technologies created can be considered as possible future directions by lawmakers in countries that are seeking to move beyond e-legislation practices that focus primarily on uni-directional information dissemination, into more participatory approaches.