Electronic Participation First International Conference, ePart 2009

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on eParticipation, ePart 2009 held in Linz, Austria in August/September 2009. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from num

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Ann Macintosh Efthimios Tambouris (Eds.)

Electronic Participation First International Conference, ePart 2009 Linz, Austria, September 1-3, 2009 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Ann Macintosh The University of Leeds Institute of Communications Studies Centre for Digital Citizenship Chair of Digital Governance Leeds LS2 9JT, UK E-mail: [email protected] Efthimios Tambouris University of Macedonia Department of Technology Management Periohi Loggou-Tourpali 59200 Naousa, Greece E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2009932179 CR Subject Classification (1998): J.1, K.5.2, H.4.3, H.5.1, I.3.7 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

Welcome to the first in the ePart series of annual international conferences. ePart is dedicated to reviewing research advances in both social and technological scientific domains, seeking to demonstrate new concepts, methods and styles of eParticipation. ePart is dedicated to innovative and rigorous eParticipation research. It aims to bring together researchers from a wide range of academic disciplines and provide the scientific community with a platform for discussing and advancing research findings. The conference itself is preceded by a doctoral