| Abstract: | Although many countries today exploit the potential of
ICT for supporting citizens’ engagement in the democratic
processes and invest significant amounts of money in eparticipation,
have do not pay corresponding attention in
evaluating these efforts. In this direction, this paper describes a
framework that has been developed for evaluating eparticipation
pilots in the legislation development processes of
parliaments. The proposed framework is based on a) the
objectives and basic characteristics of the ‘traditional’ public
participation, the e-participation and the legislation development
processes, and b) the existing frameworks for the evaluation of
information systems, e-participation and traditional public
participation. It includes four evaluation perspectives: process,
system, context and outcomes evaluation, each of them being
analysed into a number of evaluation criteria/variables; also, it
includes the assessment of associations between the assessed
values of outcomes evaluation factors on one hand and the
assessed values of the context, process and system evaluation
factors on the other, in order to identify the reasons of positive of
negative outcomes. |
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