Selecting People for Involving Them in Participatory Decision-Making Processes

Inclusive e-government is challenged by the limited participation of generic citizens. In order to address this issue, we propose to exploit the online services offered by the Public Administration (which support the establishment of direct relations with the population) for identifying people who might be motivated to contribute at decision making on the basis of their information interests. We propose an application supporting the analysis of users’ interests from the usage data collected by public online services and a direct interaction with the selected individuals. This application will be used for involving people in a few participatory processes to be carried out in Provincia di Torino (Italy).