***CALL FOR PAPERS***
European Research Workshop
Mapping eParticipation
5 October 2006
Supported by Demo-net: the European Network of Excellence in eParticipation
www.demo-net.org
In conjunction with MCIS 2006
The 7th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems
http://www.mcis06.org/
Venice, Italy
6-8 October 2006
Overview
The research community is involved in many efforts to understand
political participation in internet age, and to broaden and deepen
citizen participation in the political decision making process using
information and communication technologies. Advances in research in
this area involve not only IS researchers but researchers from other
disciplines such as communications, sociology, political science and
political administration. In addition the field is an applied field
which interests many government practitioners and political interest
groups. This workshop sets out to co-ordinate these diverse research
initiatives and to help scope this cross-disciplinary area.
The goal of this workshop is to map the emerging field of eParticipation.
The workshop has the following objectives
to facilitate close and sustained co-operation between eParticipation
researchers from different academic disciplines, in order to improve the
quality of research and understanding on all sides,
to assess and compare research already made on eParticipation in cities,
regions and countries across Europe,
to identify eParticipation research challenges for both researchers and
government.
to structure the core research themes and related concepts of as a
taxonomy or ontology.
This is an exciting and challenging research area, which requires a
novel combination of technical, social and political measures. This
workshop seeks research white papers on issues such as:
drivers and opportunities for eParticipation across Europe,
analysis of public eParticipation policy
approaches for defining and understanding eParticipation,
research discourse analysis techniques to explore agenda setting, and
alliance building at different levels,
current and emergent eParticipation technological infrastructures,
current and emergent eParticipation methods, and
emerging criteria which allow evaluation of eParticipation initiatives
to be undertaken in a systematic and standardised way.
The one day workshop will combine short presentations of white papers
with co-operative discussion and development of taxonomies and
ontologies, and the workshop organisers will intend to develop and
publish the results of the discussions at a later date.
Call for Participation
Authors must submit a 2-page white paper for presentation at the
workshop to the conference organizer (Jeremy Rose, [log in to unmask]) by
July 30, 2006. White papers should sketch a topic of interest to the
community in a brief form using the conventions of scientific writing,
such as abstracts, literature references and logical argument, and may
be regarded as prototypes for future development into full papers.
Acceptance and rejection notices will be sent out by 31st of August,
2006. Authors may be asked to revise their white paper. Camera-ready
copy must be submitted by 20th of September, 2006. The final papers will
be published as a workshop brochure. Co-operation and further
development of the workshop papers for submission to conferences and
journals will be facilitated.
Funding for travel and subsistence may be available from Demo-net in
cases where funding is not available from conventional sources.
Workshop Program Committee:
(Main Contact) Dr Jeremy Rose, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg
University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark
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Dr. Åke Grönlund, Professor of Informatics, Ørebro University, Sweden
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Dr. Maria A. Wimmer, Professor of eGovernment, University of
Koblenz-Landau, Germany
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Dr. Kim Viborg Andersen, Professor of IS, Copenhagen Business School,
Denmark
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Dr. Anna Carola Freschi, Assistant Professor in Sociology, Faculty of
Economics, University of Bergamo
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