The short presentation delivered during the eGov Awards 2009 at Malmo, Sweden about a novel e-deliberation project in Greece which was one of the 18 finalists projects in the egov empowering citizens category
These figures exceeded expectations so far considering that in the City of Trikala (with a population of 51.802 people), there are between 8.000 and 13.000 internet users out of which only between 950 and 1.550 users have broadband access Assuming that broadband users are the most prone to use such a sophisticated platform, then we can roughly estimate that 25% of them became registered users and 15% participated in one way or another. These numbers justify our claim that the project is already an unqualified success, especially after taking into consideration the fact that it is not yet concluded, it is a pilot and that it is a novel project for the City of Trikala and Greece as a whole.