There are a number of social demographics to encourage to participate to enhance processes at city-scale e-participation venues. Groups to encourage to e-participate include the young professional lawyers of each city. Participation can provide opportunities for individuals to distinguish themselves … Continue reading
Role-based e-participation is where participants can toggle their sociological, professional, expert and user roles per activity or contribution at e-participation venues. Such features are envisioned as pertaining to organizational processes at e-participation venues, to the indexing, search and retrieval of … Continue reading
Topical to participatory democracy are the sociological, professional and expert roles of participants. Each participant has a number of roles amidst the discussion topics and processes of participatory democracy. Individual responsibilities are important in public speaking and participatory democratic processes. … Continue reading
Situations also arise in participation where there are conflicts of interest. The matters are often situational, contextual, per topic or issue, amidst the unfolding processes of political dialogue and civil discourse in communities. As e-participation opportunities become increasingly available, new … Continue reading
As e-participation is a democratic process, peer pressures, intimidations or coercions of e-participants could be unethical. Situations arise in participation where participants’ employers or the industries of participants’ employers have interests in political discussions. In such situations, some participants might … Continue reading
In the United States of America, town meetings occur in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and elsewhere. See Also Town Hall Meeting, Town Meeting
Though the Web and collaborative software facilitate the convenience of asynchronous collaboration and virtual meetings, groups, in particular when residing in the same cities, can schedule the use of meeting rooms, presentation rooms and auditoriums. Venues for meetings or events … Continue reading
Ideas are broached pertaining to new and emerging uses of calendar, scheduling and tasks software in educational, business and community scenarios. City governments can provide calendar services and location aware service discovery can ease configuration so that users can synchronize … Continue reading
Educational technology empowers educational systems, businesses, organizations and communities. Technology can provide users with task-based content, advancing productivity, as well as with information in response to their questions, to refresh their knowledge or to facilitate on-the-job training. There is a … Continue reading
Collaborative and productivity software are the software of city-scale e-participation. Collaboration and productivity software empower individuals and teams in the performance of their various tasks at organizations across sectors and can facilitate various models of city-scale e-participation.
