Electronic participation: 5th IFIP WG 8.5 international conference, ePart 2013, Koblenz, Germany, September 17-19, 2013 ; proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2013, held in Koblenz, Germany, in September 2013. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of research in both social and technological scientific domains, seeking to demonstrate new theories, concepts, methods and styles of eParticipation with the support of innovative ICT. They have been organized in the following topical sections: research directions, social media and eParticipation, and online deliberation

Preface -- Organization -- Table of Contents -- Research Directions -- Mobile Participation: Exploring Mobile Tools in E-Participation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Setting Grounds for Mobile Participation: Foundations and Related Work on E-Participation -- 3 The Use of Mobile Technology in Government Projects: An Investigation of the Current State of Projects -- 4 The Research Initiative 'Communication, Media and Politics' and Its mPart Project in the State Rhineland-Palatinate -- 5 mPart Tools in E-Participation Contexts -- 5.1 mPart System Architecture -- 5.2 mPart Tools -- 5.3 mPart-API Framework -- 5.4 Online Survey Tools -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Targeted Policy Making by Transforming Social Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Towards Targeted Policy Making -- 4 Targeted Policy Making Lifecycle -- 5 Towards a Platform to Support Targeted Policy Making -- 6 Usage Scenario -- 7 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Crisis, Innovation and e-Participation: Towards a Framework for Comparative Research -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What Context Matters for e-Participation? -- 2.1 Sweden -- 2.2 Estonia -- 2.3 Iceland -- 3 Comparative Analysis -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- E-Participation among American Local Governments -- 1 Introduction1 -- 2 Defining E-democracy -- 3 Literature Review -- 4 Research Methods -- 5 Findings -- 6 Findings and Conclusion -- References -- Modeling the German Legal Latitude Principles -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Explanation of Legal Latitude -- 3 Modeling the Legal Latitude Principles -- 3.1 Foundations of the Model -- 3.2 The Principle of Minimum Degree of Fulfillment -- 3.3 The Principle of Necessity -- 3.4 The Principle of Overall Degree of Fulfillment -- 3.5 Model Compliance -- 4 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Social Media and E-Participation