Nicolás, Maria Alejandra, PhD Candidate of Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil). She has a scholarship from Reuni/Capes and is associate researcher of Instituições, Comportamento Político e Novas Tecnologias [Institutions, political behavior and new Technologies]. And Política, Informação e Novas Tecnologias [Politics, Information and new technologies]. She researches on digital democracy, e-government, e-parliament, e-partipation and online deliberation., Brazil