An increasingly common practice for policy-makers is to leverage e-participation to collect
citizens' opinions and improve their decision-making processes. This practice, however, is …

This special issue is dedicated to the theme of public interest technology (PIT). PIT
acknowledges that technological potential can be harnessed to satisfy the needs of civil …

There are many domains of human endeavor which invoke the “public interest,” for example,
environmental sustainability, law, journalism, and, perhaps most pointedly in 2020–2021 …

Digital participation platforms (DPP) are websites initiated by local governments through
which citizens can post and react to ideas for their city. In practice, the majority of DPP users …

For the past decade, online deliberation platforms like Polis have expanded the reach of
deliberative democracy, which calls for political decisions to be based on the results of fair …

In this paper we propose a new model to represent human debates and methods to obtain
collective conclusions from them. This model overcomes two drawbacks of existing …

Abstract Currently, Digital Democracy is gaining momentum thanks to online participation
platforms, which have emerged as innovative tools that enable citizens to participate in …

Currently, the Internet and its virtual platforms are the primary forms of communication in our
lives. From international to local communities, citizens search for and demand better ways to …

Digital participation platforms (DPP) are websites initiated by local governments through
which citizens can post and react to ideas for their city. In practice, the majority of DPP users …

Norms have been widely enacted in both human and agent societies to regulate the actions
that individuals can perform. However, although legislators may have ethics in mind when …