The use of information and communication technologies to support public administrations
governments and decision makers has been recorded for more than 20 years and dubbed
e-Government. Moving towards open governance roadmaps worldwide electronic participation and
citizen engagement stand out as a new domain important both for decision makers and citizens
and over the last decade there have been a variety of related pilot projects and innovative
approaches. With contributions from leading researchers Charalabidis and Koussouris provide
the latest research findings such as theoretical foundations principles methodologies
architectures technical frameworks cases and lessons learnt within the domain of open
collaborative governance and online citizen engagement. The book is divided into three
sections: Section one Public Policy Debate Foundations lays the foundations regarding
processes and methods for scoping planning evaluating and transforming citizen engagement.
The second section Information and Communication Technologies for Citizen Participation
details practical approaches to designing and creating collaborative governance infrastructures
and citizen participation for businesses and administrations. Lastly the third section on
Future Research Directions of Open Collaborative ICT-enabled Governance provides a
constructive critique of the developments in the past and presents prospects regarding future
challenges and research directions. The book is mainly written for academic researchers and
graduate students working in the computer social political and management sciences. Its
audience includes researchers and practitioners in e-Governance public administration
officials policy and decision makers at the local national and international level engaged in
the design and creation of policies and services and ICT professionals engaged in e-Governance
and policy modelling projects and solutions.
