DEMOS : a DEsign Method for demOcratic information System
The issue of democracy in society is at the heart of our current concerns. Organizations and their information systems are also concerned by this issue. Democracy in organization requires a debate about norms, values and language encapsulated in the information system.
Participatory design approaches address this issue by proposing a democratic empowerment for users during design phase of projects. To go further, we propose a structured method to integrate democracy into information system.
This method named DEMOS for DEsign Method for demOcratic information System is described and then illustrated by a real experiment provided by a “lifelong training” service at the University.