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LexiPation is concerned with novel use and integration of state-of-the-art ICT tools to "enable the interaction between members of parliaments and citizens or socio-economic groups" at the regional level in four member states (Germany, Greece, Italy, and UK).
More specifically, this application will support:
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the migration towards (and diffusion of) PLP, by the reduction in the complexity of its current workflow, through application of content management and e-collaboration techniques during the preparation and discussion of legislative drafts; |
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an active involvement of citizens and/or organised groups of interest in legislative participation, by the visualisation of arguments, antecedents and potential impacts of a new legislation and the proposition of amendments to the existing one. |
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To our knowledge, similar solutions do not exist on the market providing a complete "turnkey" solution (both technological and methodological) for the configuration and implementation of Living Labs in the eParticipation field. There is a plethora of suppliers providing several programmes and tools to enable the improvement of Internet-based communication by different means of service applications, but most of them do not address explicitly Governments or public administrations.
On the other hand, widely used terms like "e-consultation", "online conference" or "discussion fora" do not mean that there is a methodological concept behind these offers that facilitates goal-oriented discourses and results potentially impacting decision-making processes.
Finally, most of the experimental projects developed in the recent past are driven by local municipalities, which have a priori no interest in providing the service to other European administrations.
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