WHICH E-DEMOCRACY IS DESIRABLE? A VIABLE PROPOSAL

Vincenzo Alfano

doi:10.18769/ijasos.51821

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WHICH E-DEMOCRACY IS DESIRABLE? A VIABLE PROPOSAL

Abstract

This article wants to extract the traits that an ideal e-democracy should have, to describe a viable and effective way to implement a bottom-up form of e-democracy.

The proposal is called L'Agenda La FAcciamo NOi, (from now on L'A.L.Fa.No.), an instrument designed to realize a bottom-up form of local democracy. The instrument is a smartphone app that allows citizens to report problems they encounter in their daily lives, with a related website, which allows them to express on the priorities to be assigned to the various issues. This let any single citizen to express himself on the opportunity to put in the political agenda issues and to express his opinion on the possible actions needed to solve them. Finally I'll examine the possibility, desirability and consequences on politicians, public administrators and society of the implementation and of the use of such technology.

Keywords: e-democracy, L'A.L.Fa.No., bottom-up, referendum, referenda, political agenda, active citizenship

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English

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Vincenzo Alfano

Publication Date

December 29, 2015

Submission Date

December 27, 2015

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Year 2015 Volume: 1 Number: 3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.51821

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https://izlik.org/JA49KY86DL

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APA

Alfano, V. (2015). WHICH E-DEMOCRACY IS DESIRABLE? A VIABLE PROPOSAL. IJASOS- International E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences, 1(3), 404-414. https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.51821

AMA

1.Alfano V. WHICH E-DEMOCRACY IS DESIRABLE? A VIABLE PROPOSAL. IJASOS. 2015;1(3):404-414. doi:10.18769/ijasos.51821

Chicago

Alfano, Vincenzo. 2015. “WHICH E-DEMOCRACY IS DESIRABLE? A VIABLE PROPOSAL”. IJASOS- International E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences 1 (3): 404-14. https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.51821.

EndNote

Alfano V (December 1, 2015) WHICH E-DEMOCRACY IS DESIRABLE? A VIABLE PROPOSAL. IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences 1 3 404–414.

IEEE

[1]V. Alfano, “WHICH E-DEMOCRACY IS DESIRABLE? A VIABLE PROPOSAL”, IJASOS, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 404–414, Dec. 2015, doi: 10.18769/ijasos.51821.

ISNAD

Alfano, Vincenzo. “WHICH E-DEMOCRACY IS DESIRABLE? A VIABLE PROPOSAL”. IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences 1/3 (December 1, 2015): 404-414. https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.51821.

JAMA

1.Alfano V. WHICH E-DEMOCRACY IS DESIRABLE? A VIABLE PROPOSAL. IJASOS. 2015;1:404–414.

MLA

Alfano, Vincenzo. “WHICH E-DEMOCRACY IS DESIRABLE? A VIABLE PROPOSAL”. IJASOS- International E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences, vol. 1, no. 3, Dec. 2015, pp. 404-1, doi:10.18769/ijasos.51821.

Vancouver

1.Vincenzo Alfano. WHICH E-DEMOCRACY IS DESIRABLE? A VIABLE PROPOSAL. IJASOS. 2015 Dec. 1;1(3):404-1. doi:10.18769/ijasos.51821