
adopted: the Electronic Town Meeting [e-TM].
method "electronic town meeting" [e-TM] allows you to mix the benefits of discussion for small groups, with those of a survey aimed at a broad audience.
In this way, 'alternating between moments of discussion and moments of individual voting allows you to produce the outcome of the discussions of applications to be submitted immediately to the assembly. In the e-TM are held in succession three different phases, to facilitate the participants in the treatment of the topics under discussion:
1. a first phase of information and analysis through the contributions of
documents and experts;
2. a second round of discussion in small groups;
3. a third phase in which the themes summarized and returned in the form of questions are offered to participants who can therefore make a direct voting individually with the keypad (polling keypads).
This model of deliberative democracy is now recognized internationally, and this method is becoming popular now in many contexts. The U.S. approach has been used in situations different in Europe and has been tested, but small scale and not open to the public. The first time was in Italy in Turin in September 2005, before the Winter Olympics: two thousand Italian and foreign students met to discuss the major issues in the world. Through the town meeting
elettronic technology is put at the service of participation, in practice, a review of those cyber public meetings and assemblies of citizens, the bridge between representative democracy and direct democracy. A great example of e-TM in 4000 with the tele-voting New Yorkers have expressed their views on the best reconstruction project for the area of \u200b\u200bthe Twin Towers.
continues
0 comments:
Post a Comment