A Platform for Measuring e-Participation in Smart Cities: A Case Study with Brazilian Capitals

In the Smart Cities' contexts, one of the challenges is to process the large volume of data, which is in continuous expansion due to the constant increase of people and objects connected to the Internet. In this scenario, it is possible for the citizens to virtually participate in questions addressed by your respective local government, which is essential for the development of Smart Cities and known as eParticipation. This paper describes a process to collect, through tweets (Social Network Twitter posts), metrics related to e-Participation of the Brazilian State Capitals, mapping them and questioning the already classified as Smart Cities, utilizing for this, two of the main Data Processing tools: Apache Spark and Apache Storm.