Artur Afonso Sousa ESTVajas@di.estv.ipv.pt

Pedro AganteLibertriumpedroagante@libertrium.com

www.liberopinion.pt

Liberopinion as an enabling platform for elections 2.0: a case study

Traditional interaction during campaign

Debates TVTV clips

Campaign websiteFacebook, twitter

Emails, calls

Debates TVTV clips

Campaign websiteFacebook, twitter

Emails, calls

Emails, callsBlogs

Facebook, twitter

Emails, callsBlogs

Facebook, twitter

candidate citizens

citizens candidate

Media interaction – debate Obama Mccain 2009:

- 6 million messages sent to the candidates before the debate   - 25000 questions registered in the official website

   source: NBC

A turning point – citizen engagement

The objective

Improve interaction between candidates and citizens during the electoral period.

citizenscandidate

citizen and candidate centered platform

all stakeholders in a single place

multidirectional and networked communication

deliberation based on questions, suggestions, answers and electoral program

Liberopinion - Elections

Interface  

Interface  

Interface  

Interface  

Interface  

Interface  

Interface  

Interface  

Interface – submit question

Interface – submit question

Interface – submit question

Interface – submit question

Interface – submit question

Interface – submit question

Interface - answers

Interface - answers

Interface - answers

Interface - answers

Summary - How do citizens interact?  

Citizens can:

formulate a question or suggestion

rate existing questions and suggestions

rate electoral programs

comment

publish in facebook and twitter

Candidates can:

answer questions and comment suggestions

publish their electoral program

debate with other candidates

debate with citizens

Summary - How do candidates interact?  

 Beta version

Two versions, parliamentary and one local election

3000 unique visitors and 380 registered users

Parliamentary elections: 118 questions, 43 proposals, 1 active candidate

Viseu local elections: 2 active candidates answering almost all the questions (97% from a total of 33 questions)

Case study: the Portuguese 2009 elections  

Liberopinion in real-time - candidates  

Conclusions

 Early stage of adoption

Applications in e-democracy will become mainstream

Increasing human and financial resources allocated to e-campaigning

High potential

Increased interest among smaller parties

Future work

 Support for candidate-staff workflow and management

Management of Favorites

How to prevent duplicate questions and suggestions?

How to manage a large amount of questions and suggestions?

 Thank y u

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