IFIP TC6 Open Digital Library

4. ePart 2012: Kristiansand, Norway

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

Efthimios Tambouris, Ann Macintosh, Øystein Sæbø

Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7444, ISBN: 978-3-642-33249-4



Contents

Keynote Speech

Social Media and Counter-Democracy: The Contingences of Participation.

Peter Dahlgren

 1-12

Reviews

E-Consultations: A Review of Current Practice and a Proposal for Opening Up the Process.

Steffen Albrecht

 13-24

Choosing the Right Medium for Municipal eParticipation Based on Stakeholder Expectations.

Marius Rohde Johannessen, Leif Skiftenes Flak, Øystein Sæbø

 25-36

A Communication Genre Perspective on e-Petitioning: The Case of the Citizens' Initiative.

Åke Grönlund, Iryna Susha

 37-48

Policy Consultations

Citizens' Evaluation of an Online Argument Visualisation Platform for eParticipation.

Eleni Panopoulou, Efpraxia Dalakiouridou, Efthimios Tambouris, Konstantinos A. Tarabanis

 49-60

PolicyCommons - Visualizing Arguments in Policy Consultation.

Neil Benn, Ann Macintosh

 61-72

Structuring Japanese Regional Information Gathered from the Web as Linked Open Data for Use in Concern Assessment.

Shun Shiramatsu, Robin M. E. Swezey, Hiroyuki Sano, Norifumi Hirata, Tadachika Ozono, Toramatsu Shintani

 73-84

Case Studies

Using Online Carbon Calculators for Participation in Local Climate Initiatives.

Georg Aichholzer, Doris Allhutter, Stefan Strauß

 85-96

Reference Process Model for Participatory Budgeting in Germany.

Sabrina Scherer, Maria Wimmer

 97-111

Getting Teenagers to Participate: A Survey of the Youth Council of the City of Lausanne.

Olivier Glassey, Camille-Angelo Aglione

 112-119

Techniques and Analysis

Model Based Critique of Policy Proposals.

Adam Zachary Wyner, Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon

 120-131

Online Communities Support Policy-Making: The Need for Data Analysis.

Roman Klinger, Philipp Senger, Sumit Madan, Michal Jacovi

 132-143

Exploiting eParticipation Using an Ontological Approach.

Cleyton Slaviero, Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia, Cristiano Maciel

 144-155

Public Policy Formulation through Non Moderated Crowdsourcing in Social Media.

Yannis Charalabidis, Anna Triantafillou, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Euripidis Loukis

 156-169