Participation to support citizen participation and achieve democracy ideal. Trust as a social
behavior can be used as a method to model preferences and facilitate better participation …

In the last decade the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have
boomed in many sectors, such as business, education, commerce and have profound …

The paper presents a policy analysis framework developed through a process of
interdisciplinary integration as well as through a process of end users needs elicitation. The …

The Web 2.0 social media have been initially exploited by private sector firms, in order to
support mainly their marketing and customer relations functions, and there has been …

All different kinds of organizations–business, public, and non-governmental alike–are
becoming aware of a soaring complexity in problem solving, decision making and idea …

Multi-criteria decision analysis provides an effective and valuable method of articulating and
structuring deliberations within public participation. Public participation means that citizens …

With ever increasing global proliferation of ICTs, there is an urgent need for every
eparticipation model invented to carefully reconcile its interactions with human intuition–a …

Although social media attracted significant interest from governments throughout the globe,
the challenge of a successful exploitation of big social data to gain valuable insights in the …

This article discusses the issue of strategic planning support within local communities. The
preparation and implementation of a strategy is a task that demands a high level of …

There has been significant research in the private sector towards systematic exploitation of
the emerging Web 2.0/Web 3.0 and social media paradigms. However, not much has been …