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E-consultation as a Tool for Participation in Teachers’ Unions

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Abstract

In the 2000s, the Internet became the preferred mean for the citizens to communicate. The YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, i.e., the social networks in general appeared together with the Web 2.0, which allows an extraordinary interaction between citizens and the democratic institutions. The trade unions constantly fight governments’ decisions, especially in periods of crisis like the one that the world, Europe and, in particular, Portugal are facing. In this regard, the use of e-participation platforms is expected to strengthen the relationship between trade unions and the education community. This paper reports the research about the planning and driving of a series of experiments of online public consultation, launched by teachers’ trade unions. These experiments are compared with those of other countries, such as Australia, United Kingdom and United States of America. A quantitative analysis of the results regarding hits, subscriptions, and response rates is presented, and it is compared with the 90-9-1 rule, the ASCU model and data from government agencies. The experiments performed used the Liberopinion, an online platform that supports bidirectional asynchronous communication. A better understanding of the benefits of these collaborative environments is expected by promoting quality of interaction between actors.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/consultations/index_en.htm.

  2. 2.

    http://fenprof.liberopinion.com/pergA.php?id=1,id=9,10,11andid=12.

  3. 3.

    http://libertrium.com/.

  4. 4.

    http://www.madridparticipa.org.

  5. 5.

    http://askbristoldebates.com/.

  6. 6.

    http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk.

  7. 7.

    http://www.europarl.europa.eu.

  8. 8.

    See petitions at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparliament/pt/00533cec74/Petições.html and European citizenship initiative at http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/welcome?lg=pt.

  9. 9.

    http://www.sprc.pt.

  10. 10.

    http://www.fenprof.pt.

  11. 11.

    http://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid = INE&xpgid = ine_indicadores&indOcorrCod = 0006349&contexto = bd&selTab = tab2.

  12. 12.

    http://www.pordata.pt/Portugal/Individuos+que+utilizam+computador+e+Internet+em+percentagem+do+total+de+individuos+por+sexo-1142.

  13. 13.

    http://www.escolapublica.net.

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Quental, C., Gouveia, L.B. (2018). E-consultation as a Tool for Participation in Teachers’ Unions. In: Rocha, Á., Reis, L. (eds) Developments and Advances in Intelligent Systems and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 718. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58965-7_11

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