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Interpretations of e-participation : focusing elite attitudes

Starting from some Italian case studies an effort is made to identify roots of e-deliberative democracy potentiality embedded in digital community networks. These are here defined as socio-technical networks consisting of civic networks and public digital information space. A claim is made that building practice of deliberative democracy requires: a) developing public communication spaces for involving citizens' participation, b) upgrading of service provision by local government, c) setting up extensive and inclusive