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The Effectiveness of e-Cognocracy

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Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective (WSKS 2009)

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This paper presents an empirical analysis of the effectiveness of the democracy model known as e-cognocracy [1-7]. The paper considers the extent to which the goals of e-cognocracy (transparency, control, participation, knowledge democratisation and learning) are achieved in an e-discussion process in a cognitive democracy using a collaborative tool (forum). Students on the Multicriteria Decision Making course at the Zaragoza University Faculty of Economics were surveyed with the aim of identifying their opinions with regards to the Gran Scala leisure complex project which involves locating the biggest leisure complex in Europe in the Los Monegros area of Aragon, north-east Spain. The results of the survey, which focuses on different dimensions of the problem (quality of the web site, quality of information available and attributes for effectiveness), have been analysed using structural equations. This approach has been formulated as a general framework that allows an empirical evaluation of citizens’ e-participation in electronic governance.

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  1. Zaragoza Multicriteria Decision Making Group (http://gdmz.unizar.es) Faculty of Economics, University of Zaragoza, Spain

    Xhevrie Mamaqi & José María Moreno-Jiménez

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  1. Open Research Society, NGO, and American College of Greece, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. Dipartemento Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema, Italy

    Ernesto Damiani

  3. College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    John M. Carroll

  4. College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Robert D. Tennyson

  5. ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

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  6. KMR group at NADA/KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Lindstedtsv. 5, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

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  7. Creatifica Associates, Chelveston, Wellingborough, UK

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  8. University of Tampere, Finland

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  9. School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Private Bag 92006, 1020, Auckland, New Zealand

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  10. School of Business, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

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  11. European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Münster, Leonardo Campus 3, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Gottfried Vossen

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Mamaqi, X., Moreno-Jiménez, J.M. (2009). The Effectiveness of e-Cognocracy. In: Lytras, M.D., et al. Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective. WSKS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5736. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04754-1_43

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