Contribui？？es a uma teoria da democracia digital como suporte à formula？？o de políticas públicas

under the realm of the brazilian federal government, online public consultations have been expanded as a means of shared formulation of policies of many government sectors, especially science and technology. however, despite the fast multiplication of those instruments of political participation in the last few years, there can be resistances to their advance. so it is convenient to clarify the domain in which the strengthening of the electronic means of participation can be supported in the latin american context. this paper proposes contributions to a theory of digital democracy which might sustain efforts to the development of that field. attention is drawn to the political conception of justice according to rawls and habermas' theory of discourse ethics, which can bear the notion that individuals and groups should, in liberal-democratic societies, cooperatively act in order to value their political liberty in agreements about goals and priorities of the manners of promoting justice and reducing inequalities.