TITLE:
Experiments with a University e-Participation Platform
AUTHORS:
Víctor F. Peñafiel, Javier F. Guerrero, José M. Lavín
KEYWORDS:
ICT, Electronic Democracy, Citizen Participation, Web Architecture
JOURNAL NAME:
Social Networking,
Vol.6 No.3,
July
18,
2017
ABSTRACT: Currently, the ICT put at our disposal is increasingly more powerful tools that can help increase citizen participation, transparency, and legitimacy in decision-making. We understand that these participation tools can break down into a set of tasks. In this dissertation, we review some of these tasks and how we can integrate them into a series of processes in public higher education institutions. By establishing the tasks, we can set up an online architecture for electronic participation and support for decision-making within the university community. One of the consolidated database architectures we have used for this study is MyUniversity-URJC. This proposal is achievable by utilizing the Universities’ technological infrastructure and, mainly, the digital culture of its users.