Colcom: Uma plataforma web participativa para a deliberação coletiva e desenvolvimento de ideias

Abstract

Digital participation tools are already a reality in Brazil and other countries, however, their access is still restricted to a small portion of internet users; Social networks, on the other hand, are already widespread, but suffer from significant limitations in terms of effective deliberation. The main objective of the platform here proposed is to be a favorable environment for the participation and deliberation of individuals from a certain community in their decision-making processes, thus promoting digital democracy on a local scale. This technical report describes the design, implementation and validation process of the colcom open source application. The platform uses social network dynamics and Version Control Systems (VCS) concepts, particularly Git, as its main operating guidelines.