Concepção e avaliação de um modelo colaborativo de orçamento participativo usando mashup

Abstract

The technology for website construction has been progressively improved, allowing the development of applications that use the network not only for information exchange, but also as a platform for distributed applications, which permit de combination of data and functionality of more than one source (mashups applications). Recently, citizens started to interact in Collaborative Virtual Environments, supported by Information and Communication Technology, as, for example, in specific applications from the Electronic Government. These technologies and tools should facilitate the effective participation of citizens, through the expression of views or even through their inclusion in the formulation of public policies, since the guarantee of the legitimacy of political action is only achieved when the public may direct or indirectly participate in the decision making of public policies. Watching some of these digital initiatives, we realized that many of the discussions and collaborations will ultimately not achieve its main goal, which is the inclusion of proposals in the formulation of public policies, and simply end up forgotten in the vast web content. Thus, this study is an analysis of digital initiatives that enable the construction of a process of citizen participation and describes the design and evaluation of a web-based application mashups, which aims to provide the direct participation of citizens in the drafting of demands to Participatory Budgeting. Therefore, studies comprises the Electronic Government initiatives such as the government systems of public consultation and also other applications developed by civil society itself, allowing a discussion of the relationship between the population and the State in the digital age. The proposed solution incorporates features of applications based on maps, becoming thereby a “geocolaborative” application in order to receive the population demands.