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Internet, Discourses, and Democracy

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It is the very purpose of the DEMOS1 project — the subject of this paper2 — to exploit novel forms of computer mediated communication in order to support democracy on-line (‘e-democracy’) and to enhance citizen participation in modern societies.

DEMOS (Delphi Mediation Online System) is funded as a shared-cost RTD project under the 5th Framework Programme of the European Commission (IST) and is being developed by a research consortium comprising eight organisations from five different European countries, representing the fields of academic research, multimedia, software, market research and public administration. The DEMOS Project (IST-1999-20530) commenced September 2000 and is going on for 30 months. For more information see the project web site: http://www.demos-project.org

This report describes the entire spread of the ongoing project and has to be seen as an short introduction to the particular fields of research and development which are pulled together in DEMOS.

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  1. Department for Technology Assessment, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Schwarzenbergstr. 95, 21071, Hamburg, Germany

    R. Luehrs & T. Malsch

  2. Pixelpark AG, Institute for Media Development, Rotherstr. 8, 10245, Berlin, Germany

    K. Voss

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  1. Graduate School of Business Science, The University of Tsukuba, Tokyo

    Takao Terano  & Yukio Ohsawa  & 

  2. School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo

    Toyoaki Nishida

  3. Dept.of Computer Science, National Defense Academy, Japan

    Akira Namatame

  4. School of Medicines, Shimane Medical University, Japan

    Syusaku Tsumoto

  5. The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Osaka

    Takashi Washio

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Luehrs, R., Malsch, T., Voss, K. (2001). Internet, Discourses, and Democracy. In: Terano, T., Ohsawa, Y., Nishida, T., Namatame, A., Tsumoto, S., Washio, T. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2253. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45548-5_9

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