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The revision process of a Municipal Master Plan has a sequence of several steps that are to be executed. One of these steps, public discussion, is of great democratic importance as it allows citizens to actively participate in the management of the municipality through proposals and public debates taking place at a specific time and location in accordance to a previously published agenda.
With such a process running at Oporto’s municipality, and with the aim of reaching as much citizens as possible through the removal of spatial and temporal constrains, an effort was made to develop an electronic service for citizens, to complement the usual methods of public participation. In this paper we present the results of such service.
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Amaro Oliveira, M., Carvalho, A., Bártolo, L. (2004). Public Discussion of Oporto’s Municipal Master Plan: An e-Democracy Service Supported by a Geographical Information System. In: Traunmüller, R. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3183. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30078-6_69
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