Inclusive Social Networks: Clarifying Concepts and Prospecting Solutions for e-Cidadania

e-Cidadania is a research Project inspired by one of the current grand challenges of Computer Science research in Brazil for the next years: the Participative and Universal Access to Knowledge for the Brazilian Citizen. This Project investigates the relationship people establish in their informal communities organized around some special interests, how they use societal artifacts, including computational technology. This work builds on Organizational Semiotics (OS) to conduct the 1st Semio-Participatory Workshop of the e-Cidadania Project aiming at problem clarification, project scope definition and requirements elicitation for an inclusive social network system. This research report illustrates the use of the OS artifacts, presents the main achievements of the Workshop and discusses results of the semiotic-informed analysis

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