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Call for Papers: E-Participation and E-Citizenship Minitrack at HICCS 2009
The most important stakeholder in e-Government and e-Democracy systems is the citizen. This minitrack focuses on e-Participation, the involvement of citizens in the development, use, and evaluation of e-Government and e-Democracy systems. According to the European Commission, e-Participation involves areas such as e-consultation, e-legislation, e-petition and e-deliberation.
This minitrack showcases projects in which citizen participation plays a significant role and highlights the experience of e-Citizens.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Participatory design practice, ethnographic studies, and case studies of e-Government and e-Participation applications
- Empirical observations of use of e-Government and e-Participation systems
- Studies of the impact of e-Government, e-Democracy, and e-Participation systems on citizen involvement
- Social networking and other digital collaborative spaces in the context of e-Government and e-Participation
- Awareness, acceptance, and use of community and regional information systems by citizens
- The experience of the e-Citizen
- Adoption of e-Government and e-Participation systems
- Research on use of the internet by political candidates and the democratic process online
- Studies of citizens and democratic processes in virtual worlds
- Impact and contrasts of e-Voting and e-Participation systems from the perspective of citizens
- Discussion of the universal access requirements of e-Government
- Ergonomic, human-factors, and HCI-related studies of e-Government, and e- Participation applications
- Accessibility
- Interaction design, user experience design, and contextual studies of e-Government, e-Democracy, and e-Participation systems
The call for papers is online at http://www2.hawaii.edu/~scottpr/hicss42/
ePart2011 - Deadline extended to 14 April 2011
