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Electronic Participation

Third IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2011, Delft, The Netherlands, August 29 – September 1, 2011. Proceedings

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6847)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

Conference series link(s): ePart: International Conference on Electronic Participation

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Table of contents (26 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Appreciation of Social Media

    1. Combining Social and Government Open Data for Participatory Decision-Making

      • Evangelos Kalampokis, Michael Hausenblas, Konstantinos Tarabanis
      Pages 36-47
    2. Extracting Semantic Knowledge from Twitter

      • Peter Teufl, Stefan Kraxberger
      Pages 48-59
  3. Visualising Arguments

    1. Evaluation of an Argument Visualisation Platform by Experts and Policy Makers

      • Efthimios Tambouris, Efpraxia Dalakiouridou, Eleni Panopoulou, Konstantinos Tarabanis
      Pages 74-86
    2. ArgVis: Structuring Political Deliberations Using Innovative Visualisation Technologies

      • Areti Karamanou, Nikolaos Loutas, Konstantinos Tarabanis
      Pages 87-98
  4. Understanding eParticipation

    1. Inform-Consult-Empower: A Three-Tiered Approach to eParticipation

      • Deirdre Lee, Nikolaos Loutas, Elena Sánchez-Nielsen, Esen Mogulkoc, Oli Lacigova
      Pages 121-132
    2. Design Thinking and Participation: Lessons Learned from Three Case Studies

      • Olivier Glassey, Jean-Henry Morin, Patrick Genoud, Giorgio Pauletto
      Pages 133-144
    3. Reference Framework for E-participation Projects

      • Sabrina Scherer, Maria A. Wimmer
      Pages 145-156
  5. eParticipation Initiatives and Country Studies

    1. Measure to Improve: A Study of eParticipation in Frontrunner Dutch Municipalities

      • Anne Fleur van Veenstra, Marijn Janssen, Andreas Boon
      Pages 157-168
    2. Direct Democracy Catalysed by Resident-to-Resident Online Deliberation

      • Rean van der Merwe, Anthony Meehan
      Pages 169-179
    3. Knowledge as Power on the Internet

      • Zelinna Pablo, Cynthia Hardy
      Pages 180-191
    4. An Overview Assessment of ePetitioning Tools in the English Local Government

      • Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos, Christopher Moody, Tony Elliman
      Pages 204-215
    5. Questão Pública: First Voting Advice Application in Latin America

      • Alejandra Marzuca, Uwe Serdült, Yanina Welp
      Pages 216-227

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2011, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in August/September 2011. The 26 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on appreciation of social media; visualizing arguments; understanding eParticipation; eParticipation initiatiaves and country studies; participation and eServices; and innovative technologies.

Keywords

  • Twitter
  • Web 2.0
  • e-campaigning
  • e-government
  • social computing
  • social networking
  • universal access

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Efthimios Tambouris

  • Institute of Communications Studies, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Ann Macintosh

  • University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Hans Bruijn

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