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Internet use for social control and participation: what are local governments doing in Latin America?

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Ricardo Matheus,

Manuella M. Ribeiro,

José Carlos Vaz,

Cesar A. de SouzaAuthors Info & Claims

ICEGOV '10: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

Pages 333 - 338

https://doi.org/10.1145/1930321.1930389

Published: 25 October 2010 Publication History

Abstract

This paper will show the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in local governments of Latin America to support electronic governance based on the Internet. The paper methodology of analysis is divided in two steps: i) Series of case studies from local governments in Latin America based in structured inspection sites. ii) Analysis and identification of features in these governmental websites found (forums, transparency portals, digital participatory budgeting and others) and its results in promoting the rights of to be heard, to participation on public management and social control of the government, both identified in a literature review carried out earlier. Therewith, from these rights an assessment was made of the limits and possibilities from the features found of the websites.

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Internet use for social control and participation: what are local governments doing in Latin America?
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Computing in government
  2. Enterprise computing

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ICEGOV '10: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

October 2010

452 pages

ISBN:9781450300582

DOI:10.1145/1930321

Editors:
Jim DAVIES
Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK
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Tomasz JANOWSKI
Center for Electronic Governance, UNU-IIST, Macao SAR
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UNU-IIST, Macao SAR
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HONG Yi
National School of Administration, China
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Theresa PARDO
Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, SUNY

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