Participação e qualidade da deliberação pública online

In recent years, several mechanisms of e-participation have been adopted worldwide. These mechanisms are the result of the use of NICT s in management and public deliberation. In Brazil, two cities have implemented with a relative success, digital participatory budgeting forms, like Belo Horizonte and Recife, and have produced different impacts on the processes of associativism, mobilization, inclusion, participation and social control and often qualifying the public deliberation and creating new spaces for debate, which is called “cyber-sphere.” The analysis of the institutional design of these experiments not only signals the expansion of the group participation in the process of public deliberation, but also the development of new forms of online interaction through digital tools such as emails, chats, blogs, posts, twitters, online social networks and so on. In addition, it allows more access to information on public management increases the degree of social control and accountability, qualifies public deliberation, constituting a potential public cyber-sphere.