A framework for scoping eParticipation
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Ontology for an e-participation virtual resource centre
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ePart '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Electronic Participation
WSKS '09 Proceedings of the 2nd World Summit on the Knowledge Society: Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective
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ePart'10 Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
ePart'10 Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
A survey on participation at Geneva's constituent assembly
ePart'10 Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
Assessment criteria and evaluation of eConsultation platforms
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
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EGOVIS'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Electronic government and the information systems perspective
ArgVis: structuring political deliberations using innovative visualisation technologies
ePart'11 Proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
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ePart'11 Proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
Genres of communication in activist eParticipation: a comparison of new and old media
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
Structuring e-participation perspectives: mapping and aligning models to core facets
Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
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An increasing number of governments worldwide understand the importance of electronic participation (eParticipation) i.e. the importance of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to more actively engage citizens in democratic processes. As a result, the number of eParticipation projects and relevant tools is rapidly growing. This makes the need for recording and reviewing such projects and tools both timely and critical. In this paper we present a framework for assessing eParticipation projects and tools. The proposed framework is based on distinguishing between participation areas and ICT support for these areas and suggests assessment to be performed using specific templates that are developed for this purpose. We further apply this framework in order to assess 19 relevant European Commission co-funded research projects. The preliminary results suggest that research in the domain of eParticipation is at its early stages. More specifically, the results suggest that projects focus on the more elementary eParticipation areas, such as information provision and opinion polling, while there is a trend for using multiple access channels, e.g. mobile technologies.