The SIG Government Executives will experience a good opportunity to get involved in the DEMO-net research agendas and in carrying out joint works of empirical work with researchers of DEMO-net.

This may include new challenges to be addressed to realise the i2010 Policy Action “4. Transparency and democratic engagement”, as agreed by Minis-ters at the Lisbon Conference in September 2007.
Another opportunity to get engaged with the eParticipation research agenda is to commu-nicate research needs on e.g. competence and skills development, and on technological deficiencies.
As such, this kind of activity may have a wider social effect as facilitating community development and involvement of experts from practice into the European research space, which will bring benefits to DEMO-net as well.
Some reference documents making links with government executives as recommended readings are:

• Declaration of the 4th Ministerial eGovernment conference in Lisbon, September 2007;
• Guide to Regional Good Practice eGovernment; eris@, September 2007;
• European eGovernment 2005 – 2007: Taking stock of good practice and progress towards implementation of the i2010 eGovernment Action Plan, September 2007