Toward E-Participation on the Basis of Era based Cellular Planning System

Ali Asghar Pourezzat, Seyyed Mahdi Sharifmousavi, Ghazaleh Taheri Attar, Hashem Sodagar and Majed Naji
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Ali Asghar Pourezzat: Public Administration Department, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Seyyed Mahdi Sharifmousavi: Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Ghazaleh Taheri Attar: Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
Hashem Sodagar: Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran
Majed Naji: Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran

International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy (IJIDE), 2012, vol. 3, issue 4, 53-63

Abstract: The idea of direct democracy has been regarded as an unachievable ideal by political philosophers throughout history. Previously, the direct and sustainable participation of the public in trifling affairs related to their destiny wasn’t possible. By developing electronism, the possibility of direct and continuous polls makes direct democracy achievable. However, temporary polls can never refer to deliberated opinions of the people. Therefore, designing a system of continuously collecting public opinions about details of social life is necessary. Strategic era based cellular planning system (ECPS) using “Comprehensive system of the public information and communication” provides the capacity of gathering the opinions of various interest groups of the society as executable scenarios and saving to the database of system in order to chose them for implementation in accordance with their attractiveness and requirements of each era, depending on the opinions of the people and policy makers. In this regard, the possibility of continuous restructuring of social institutions based on deliberated opinions of people is provided. In this way, it prevents the imposition stemmed from traditions established in the old social institutions; so, democracy can be realized in its real sense away from traditions, institutions and power of political parties.

Date: 2012
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