Based on these findings, we discuss how this situation might be changed through the design of new technologies to raise awareness while creating more active and distributed participation.
The simulator will be implemented in a "cloud" environment allowing to experiment a distributed participation in the three countries object of the study.
Nevertheless, current web technologies enable new forms of distributed participation which might allow PD processes to be implemented in a broader and flexible way, but may at the same time raise new issues in relation to participation.
In order for these types of systems to evolve and support the type of distributed participation and flexibility that the strategy envisions, they must be designed and (more importantly) specified to expose the necessary interfaces and exhibit sufficient modularity to allow for future growth.
More specifically, we grouped van Es's codes of clarifying, countering, redirecting, linking participant ideas, distributing participation, and validating participant ideas under monitoring and highlighting, lifting up, and pressing under selecting (see Table 2).
As shown in Table 2, we considered facilitators' moves that were coded as "clarifying," "countering," "redirecting," "distributing participation," "linking participant ideas," and "validating participant ideas" as evidence of facilitators' paying close attention to what participants were (or were not) saying and, if needed, assuring that the discussion remains focused on the PD task at hand.
Buy-in is defined as on-site support of the research study through promoting information about the study to potential participants and their families and, in some cases, distributing participation information as instructed by the study manager.
In initiating the project, it again distributed industrial participation throughout the United States, under the control of its own centres.
It is geographically distributed, and participation in the project is done on a voluntary basis, without a single formal employee or directly funded person.
In addition, as the ratios of government subsidies increase, the speeds of participation become more distributed, whereas the participation rates become more concentrated.
The text then continues with the design and implementation of a regulatory mechanism that uniformly distributes buyers' participation among the available auctions.
