Electronic participation : 4th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2012, Kristiansand, Norway, September 3-5, 2012. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2012, held in Kristiansand, Norway, in September 2012. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. This volume includes complete research work organised in five groups as follows: • Keynote Speech • Reviews • Policy Consultations • Case Studies • Techniques and Analysis. Front Matter....Pages - Social Media and Counter-Democracy: The Contingences of Participation....Pages 1-12 E-Consultations: A Review of Current Practice and a Proposal for Opening Up the Process....Pages 13-24 Choosing the Right Medium for Municipal eParticipation Based on Stakeholder Expectations....Pages 25-36 A Communication Genre Perspective on e-Petitioning: The Case of the Citizens’ Initiative....Pages 37-48 Citizens’ Evaluation of an Online Argument Visualisation Platform for eParticipation....Pages 49-60 PolicyCommons — Visualizing Arguments in Policy Consultation....Pages 61-72 Structuring Japanese Regional Information Gathered from the Web as Linked Open Data for Use in Concern Assessment....Pages 73-84 Using Online Carbon Calculators for Participation in Local Climate Initiatives....Pages 85-96 Reference Process Model for Participatory Budgeting in Germany....Pages 97-111 Getting Teenagers to Participate: A Survey of the Youth Council of the City of Lausanne....Pages 112-119 Model Based Critique of Policy Proposals....Pages 120-131 Online Communities Support Policy-Making: The Need for Data Analysis....Pages 132-143 Exploiting eParticipation Using an Ontological Approach....Pages 144-155 Public Policy Formulation through Non Moderated Crowdsourcing in Social Media....Pages 156-169 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2013, held in Koblenz, Germany, in September 2013. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of research in both social and technological scientific domains, seeking to demonstrate new theories, concepts, methods and styles of eParticipation with the support of innovative ICT. They have been organized in the following topical sections: research directions, social media and eParticipation, and online deliberation. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2014, held in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2014. The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions.