Challenges and barriers in implementing e-participation tools. One year of experience from implementing Gov2demoss in 64 municipalities in Spain

摘要

ICT tools are empowering citizens' ability to influence governance by making their voices heard. Participatory tools have become standard e-participation features for enabling citizens and civil society organisations to influence policy and to participate more substantively in advocacy. Although such initiatives are implemented with enthusiasm, we argue that local authorities need to decide which tools to use in which contexts and how to combine those tools to enable inclusive engagement. The overall objective of this paper is to present challenges and barriers in implementing Gov2demoss e-participation platform in 64 municipalities in Catalonia in the framework of the Consensus project.