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A privacy-preserving e-participation framework allowing citizen opinion analysis

A privacy-preserving e-participation framework allowing citizen opinion analysis In e-democracy, e-participation represents a key component, as it is the way to adapt government decisions to the real expectations of citizens. The availability of information-communication technologies represents the basis for the implementation of concrete plans of citizens' participation to the government of the community. However, there is a non trivial trade-off to manage, between security and privacy needs and opinion analysis opportunities. Indeed, whereas we have to guarantee that the action of citizens is kept anonymous, relating opinions to information about people allows the government management to coherently orient the executive action. In this paper, we present a solution of the above trade-off, by proposing a framework relying on existing social networks and working through cryptographic protocols able to ensure citizens' anonymity yet enabling opinion analysis. A careful security analysis and the addressing of the main implementation issues make the proposal ready to a secure and feasible adoption in real-life contexts. Keywords: privacy; e-democracy; social network; e-participation. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Buccafurri, F., Fotia, L. and Lax, G. (2015) `A privacy-preserving e-participation framework allowing citizen opinion analysis', Electronic Government, An International Journal, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.185­206. Biographical notes: Francesco Buccafurri is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Electronic Government, an International Journal Inderscience Publishers

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Publisher
Inderscience Publishers
Copyright
Copyright © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
ISSN
1740-7494
eISSN
1740-7508
DOI
10.1504/EG.2015.070131
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Abstract

In e-democracy, e-participation represents a key component, as it is the way to adapt government decisions to the real expectations of citizens. The availability of information-communication technologies represents the basis for the implementation of concrete plans of citizens' participation to the government of the community. However, there is a non trivial trade-off to manage, between security and privacy needs and opinion analysis opportunities. Indeed, whereas we have to guarantee that the action of citizens is kept anonymous, relating opinions to information about people allows the government management to coherently orient the executive action. In this paper, we present a solution of the above trade-off, by proposing a framework relying on existing social networks and working through cryptographic protocols able to ensure citizens' anonymity yet enabling opinion analysis. A careful security analysis and the addressing of the main implementation issues make the proposal ready to a secure and feasible adoption in real-life contexts. Keywords: privacy; e-democracy; social network; e-participation. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Buccafurri, F., Fotia, L. and Lax, G. (2015) `A privacy-preserving e-participation framework allowing citizen opinion analysis', Electronic Government, An International Journal, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.185­206. Biographical notes: Francesco Buccafurri is

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Electronic Government, an International JournalInderscience Publishers

Published: Jan 1, 2015

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