Track: Electronic Government
Minitrack: E-Participation and E-Citizenship

Participation of citizens is critical to the democratic process and to the effective performance of e-Governmental services and systems. This minitrack focuses on e-Participation, the involvement of citizens in the development, use, and evaluation of e-Government and e-Democracy systems. As e-Government becomes more ubiquitous, many questions arise about what it means to be an "e-Citizen," how the concept of citizenship might be changing, and how participation in the democratic process and democratic/governmental institutions might be influenced.

For more information, please visit: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~scottpr/hicss42/

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Participatory design practice, ethnographic studies, empirical studies, and case studies of e-Government, e-Democracy, and e-Participation applications
* Analyses of impacts and adoption of e-Government, e-Democracy, and e-Participation systems
* Social networking and collaborative spaces in the context of e-Government
* Experience and involvement of the "e-Citizen"
* Research on the democratic process online
* Studies of citizens and democratic processes in virtual worlds
* Studies of the universal access requirements of e-Government

Co-chairs:
Scott Robertson (Primary Contact)
Department of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Building
1280 East-West Rd., Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Phone: +1-808-956-2023
Fax: +1-808-956-3548
Email: scott.robertson@hawaii.edu

Sara Eriksén
Department of Interaction and System Design
School of Engineering
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Box 520, 372 25 Ronneby, Sweden
Phone: +46-457-385565
Fax: +46-457-12679
Email: sara.eriksen@bth.se

Thomas A. Horan
School of Information Science
Claremont Graduate University
130 East Ninth Street Claremont, CA 91711, USA
Phone: +1-909-607-9302
Fax: +1-909-621-8564
Email: tom.horan@cgu.edu