Electronic Participation [recurso electrónico] : Second IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 29 – September 2, 2010. Proceedings / edited by Efthimios Tambouris, Ann Macintosh, Olivier Glassey.

Foundations and Visionary -- Towards a Systematic Exploitation of Web 2.0 and Simulation Modeling Tools in Public Policy Process -- Don’t Vote, Evolve! -- The Use of Expressives in Online Political Talk: Impeding or Facilitating the Normative Goals of Deliberation? -- ICT’s for Democracy in Latin America? -- eParticipation Initiatives -- eParticipation Initiatives in Europe: Learning from Practitioners -- Tracking and Explaining E-Participation in India -- e-Participation Experiences and Local Government in Catalonia: An Explanatory Analysis -- The AUGMENT Project: Co-constructive Mapping and Support of Accessibility and Participation -- Genres of Participation in Social Networking Systems: A Study of the 2009 Norwegian Parliamentary Election -- Political Deliberation in the Blogosphere: The Case of the 2009 Portuguese Elections -- Understanding and Evaluating eParticipation -- On Sustainable eParticipation -- Widening the Disciplinary Scope of eParticipation. Reflections after a Research on Tourism and Cultural Heritage -- A Survey on Participation at Geneva’s Constituent Assembly -- A Regional Model for E-Participation in the EU: Evaluation and Lessons Learned from VoicE -- Service Guidelines of Public Meeting’s Webcasts: An Experience -- Information and Communication Technologies and eVoting -- Semantic Web Standards and Ontologies for Legislative Drafting Support -- Using Gis Tools to Support E_Participation – A Systematic Evaluation -- Do Voting Advice Applications Have an Effect on Electoral Participation and Voter Turnout? Evidence from the 2007 Swiss Federal Elections -- An Integrated Application of Security Testing Methodologies to e-voting Systems.

The International Conference on eParticipation is supported by IFIP WG 8. 5 (Inter- tional Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8. 5 on Information S- tems in Public Administration). Organized annually, it is a show-case for research and practice in the multidisciplinary ?eld of eParticipation. ePart is committed to reviewing research advances and case studies in social and technologicalscienti?c domains, seeking to demonstratenew concepts, methods, styles and enabling technologies of eParticipation. It brings together researchers from a wide range of academic disciplines and provides the scienti?c community with a platform for discussing and advancing the latest research ?ndings. ePart 2010 continued the success of the last ePart conference. The ePart 2009 p- ceedings contained 16 completed, research papers published by Springer in LNCS vol. 5694 and 20 ongoing research, project and development papers published by Trauner Druck. This year the ePart 2010 Springer proceedings brings together 19 completed, c- prehensive research papers from researchers around the globe. The papers have been clustered around the following headings: – Foundations and Visionary – eParticipation Initiatives – Understanding and Evaluating eParticipation – Information and Communication Technologies and eVoting Included in this volume are papers that introduce new participation models based on advanced information and communication technologies, investigate the potential of social networking, present evaluation frameworks and assessment outcomes, critically analyze eParticipation initiatives around the globe, and demonstrate how cutting-edge technology can facilitate eParticipation.

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