Research Publications
Research Papers
van der Merwe, Rean and Meehan, Anthony (2010). Direct deliberative governance and the Web: The collaborative work of democratic decision-making mediated by an online social environment. In: Lewkowicz, Myriam; Hassanaly, Parina; Rohde, Markus and Wulf, Volker eds. Proceedings of COOP 2010. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. London: Springer, pp. 183–202.
van der Merwe, Rean D. and Meehan, Anthony S. (2009). e-Governance: Supporting pragmatic direct deliberative action through online communities of interest. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International IDIA Development Informatics Conference, 28-30 October 2009, Berg en Dal, South Africa.
van der Merwe, Rean (2008). e-Democracy driven by civil society: Developing a theoretical basis to design for bottom-up participation. In: 5th Prato Community Informatics & Development Informatics Conference, 27-30 October 2008, Prato, Italy.
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Posters
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