Author(s)

Víctor F. Peñafiel¹, Javier F. Guerrero², José M. Lavín³

¹Direction of Research and Development, Technical University of Ambato, Ambato, Ecuador.
²Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
³Faculty of Jurisprudence and Social Sciences, Technical University of Ambato, Ambato, Ecuador.

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.

ICT, Electronic Democracy, Citizen Participation, Web Architecture

Peñafiel, V. , Guerrero, J. and Lavín, J. (2017) Experiments with a University e-Participation Platform. Social Networking, 6, 239-249. doi: 10.4236/sn.2017.63016.