WeCollaborate: Citizen collaboration for government problem-solving
Bárbara P. Caetano, Carlos Eduardo Barbosa, Melise Maria Veiga de Paula, Jano Moreira de Souza · 2017
The advance of technology has influenced the relationship between government and citizen. In this scenario, the convergence between digital democracy, crowd computing, information visualization, mining of social media and collaborative information systems can increase citizen participation in solution for social problems. The aim of this paper is to propose an application that provides a collaborative environment and allows citizens to help with the solutions of social problems. Expect that the application encourage the participation increase of citizens in decision-making of public sector. In proposal is described some features and the basic application architecture. Furthermore, in order to facilitate understanding was generated a prototype and a conceptual model of the application.