José María Moreno‐Jiménez, Cristina Pérez‐Espés and Maria Wimmer
The weighting for the citizens and associations( control) are 44 % and 16 % respectively. It is worth noting that 100 % of the decisions made by the citizens and political associations were implemented. The main purpose of the experience for the City Council was the allocation of the municipal budget for cultural and sports activities. There were two voting options: with National Identity Card or with username and password. In accordance with the e‐cognocracy methodology, there were two voting rounds interspersed by a forum discussion, where 61 messages( 37 related to cultural polices and 24 to sport) were emitted. The percentage of weighted participation in the polling rounds was14.96 %( 2.17 % of the census total) in the first round and 17.60 %( 2.08 % of the census total) in the second.
After finishing the project, participants were asked to complete an on‐line questionnaire. Only 24 residents responded and 4 of the replies were invalid. Questionnaires were considered as invalid if:( i) less than 80 % of the questions were answered; and( ii) if there was zero variability with regards to the total number of questions( Moreno‐Jiménez et al., 2012). Finally, 7 meetings were held with all the implicated actors. The learning indicator will be studied( in greater detail) in future works. It should be mentioned that in the Cadrete experience there were no censored or ideologically intransigent messages.
Most of the indicators that reflect the items on‘ Society ' were taken from the survey. The data are the averages obtained in the questionnaire on a scale of 0‐10. The only indicator that was not obtained from the questionnaire, due to its complexity, is‘ Cohesion’, which will be evaluated in a future work. Scales for the indicators will also be defined and will include five levels or categories( VG: very good; G: good; M: medium; B: bad; VB: very bad). The priorities of the attributes and those of the different scales’ categories will be obtained by means of pairwise comparisons, using Thomas Saaty’ s Analytic Hierarchy Process( Saaty, 1980).
Table 2: Indicators for the effectiveness evaluation of the Cadrete’ s experience
EFFECTIVENESS
ATTRIBUTES
CONTROL( CO-DECISION)
INDICATORS
% assigned to citizens to decide a policy / decision
Clear trace from participatory endeavour to the political decisions and the policy implementation
CADRETE ' S VALUES
Politicians: 40 %; Citizens: 44 %; Ascociaciones: 16 % Total Citizens: 1949 Total Associations: 15
100 %
P E R S O N S
PARTICIPATION( CO-CREATION)
How many people contributed of the participation to citizen engagement in a democracy process
Team research
How many topics were proposed to implement the participation process One topic( cultural activities and sport activities)
% of participation of population contributing in the polls 1st Round: 14.96 %; 2nd Round: 17.60 %
% of participation of population contributing in the discussions; number of messages
Number of political representatives engaging, including meetings with the citizens
Cultural messages: 61 %( 37); Sports messages: 39 %( 24) Cultural comments: 58 %( 114); Sports comments: 42 %( 81)
7 meetings
LEARNING( EDUCATION) Change of individual preferences Future work
FREEDOM( TOLERANCE) % censored messages; % ideoogical intransigent messages 0 %
S O C I E T Y
SUBSISTENCE Under the current system of PC, representatives defend my interests 5,45( 1 ~ 10)
COHESION Homogeneity of opinions, preferences and norms Future work
EQUITY
The Administration informs the society about the decisions maden and the existing mechanisms for citizen participation
5,14( 1 ~ 10)
SOCIAL WISDOM This e-participation experience contributes to a better society 7,73( 1 ~ 10)
5. Conclusions and future work
The Knowledge Society( KS), can be understood( Moreno‐Jiménez, 2003a) as a space for the creativity, imagination, ingenuity and talent of human beings, based on the development of information and communication technologies( ICT). To educate people in the context of the KS, e‐governance models should focus on the extraction and diffusion of knowledge related with the scientific resolution of public decisional problems. The democratisation of this knowledge is the main aim of New Public Governance( NPG). Values of a global ambit, such as discussion, dialogue, the search for and dissemination of knowledge, the strengthening of ethical and moral values, learning, accountability, freedom, cohesion, equity, solidarity and education should be promoted in new models of democracies for the KS.
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