Digital Budgets for Town Administrations. Participation, Transparency and Reverse Process Engineering

The TeleP@B (Electronic Technologies for the Participation to the Budget) project aims at the creation of new democratic participation in placing side by side traditional decision making processes concerning the theme of the shared building of investment priorities of municipal budgets, especially in those disadvantaged geographical mountain areas of Tuscany which are at risk of digital alienation. This paper illustrates the project's first phase, concluding with a feasibility study on the analysis and structuring of documents and the processes for budget compilation by means of the new technologies of workflow management and content management targeting citizen participation in the process.