Abstract: | The e-participation research has investigated and suggested some
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) tools such as e-forum,
e-petition and e-community tools. This paper investigates the use of an
advanced and more structured ICT tool, the ‘structured e-forum’, for supporting
and enhancing e-participation and e-consultation in the legislation formation
process in Parliaments. For this purpose, we designed and implemented an
e-consultation pilot on a law under formation in the Greek Parliament, using a
structured e-forum tool based on the Issue-Based Information Systems (IBISs)
framework. This pilot has been evaluated using multiple methods (analysis
of discussion tree, quantitative evaluation and qualitative evaluation). |