%0 Conference Proceedings
%T The Role of eParticipation in the Expansion of Individual Capabilities
%+ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro [Brasil] = Federal University of Rio de Janeiro [Brazil] = Université fédérale de Rio de Janeiro [Brésil] (UFRJ)
%+ Danube University Krems
%A Macadar, Marie, Anne
%A Viale Pereira, Gabriela, Viale
%A Pinto, Fernando, Bichara
%Z Part 4: User Perspectives
%< avec comité de lecture
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B 11th International Conference on Electronic Participation (ePart)
%C San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy
%Y Panos Panagiotopoulos
%Y Noella Edelmann
%Y Olivier Glassey
%Y Gianluca Misuraca
%Y Peter Parycek
%Y Thomas Lampoltshammer
%Y Barbara Re
%I Springer International Publishing
%3 Electronic Participation
%V LNCS-11686
%P 155-166
%8 2019-09-02
%D 2019
%R 10.1007/978-3-030-27397-2_13
%K eParticipation
%K Capability Approach (CA)
%K Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
%Z Computer Science [cs]
%Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciencesConference papers
%X This article seeks to understand how eParticipation can boost individual capabilities in an ICT4D context. The analysis has regard eParticipation as a mechanism for expanding capabilities since it increases the democratic and participatory involvement of individuals in society. To this end, we examined the eParticipation field according to Sæbø et al. [18] and Medaglia [11], combining the capability approach from Sen’s [21] and Nussbaum’s [15] perspectives. Although the literature recognized that the capability approach is particularly difficult to operationalize in practice, we discovered some mechanisms in the eParticipation literature to support our analysis. However, despite its apparent benefits, eParticipation can indirectly contribute toward increasing inequalities among people since it is not available to all. We believe that recognition of the inequalities generated by the digital divide and the subsequent decrease in eParticipation could lead to a better understanding of the ICT4D context and assist in public policy-making.
%G English
%Z TC 8
%Z WG 8.5
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-02446019/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-02446019/file/485031_1_En_13_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-02446019
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-02446019
%~ SHS
%~ IFIP-LNCS
%~ IFIP
%~ IFIP-TC
%~ IFIP-TC8
%~ IFIP-EPART
%~ IFIP-WG8-5
%~ IFIP-LNCS-11686