Research argues that e-government technologies have positive influences on politics and democracy, improving citizens' environment as well as their engagement with their government. Although much research indicates that e-government technologies have increased citizen participation, there is...

The elements of collective decision making -- Collective reasoning and coalescing reasoning -- Individual reasoning within a reasoning community -- The generic/actual argument model -- Communicating reasoning and dialectics -- Narrative reasoning -- Ontologies and the semantic web -- Pragmatic...

"This book focuses on the issues and challenges involving adoption and implementation of online civic engagement initiatives globally and will serve as a valuable guide to governments in their efforts to enable active citizen participation"--Provided by publisher.

1. E-government as collaborative governance / Barbara Allen ... [et al.] -- 2. Performance measurement and evaluation of e-government and e-governance programmes and initiatives / Tony Bovaird -- 3. E-government and e-governance / Tony Bovaird -- 4. Confidence in e-government / Georges Chatillon...

"This book offers a better understanding of methods for political activism in the information age, the effectiveness of these methods, and tools for analyzing them through the presentation of an array of real-world political issues and how they relate to the ever-expanding realm of...

E-government and social inclusion: concepts / Arun Mahizhnan -- Different : a taxonomy and examination of the role of e-government in the digital divide / Frank Bannister, Denise Leahy -- Democratising e-democracy: a roadmap for impact / Francesco Molinari, Maggie McPherson, Gurmit Singh -- ICT:...

"This book focuses on the new technological era as an innovative way to initiate democratic dialogue, but one that can also endangers individual rights to freedom, privacy, and autonomy"--Provided by publisher.

This book provides a systemic-based inquiry platform to explore boundaries, limits, and advantages of information and communication technology use in the public decision making processes. With theoretical and practical contributions, this publication examines the impact of governmental...

"This book discusses the Semantic Web, as an extension of the current World Wide Web in which information is given well-defined, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation"--Provided by publisher.

This book considers transformations within the context of computing science and information science, as they are essential in changing organizations. It not only considers transformations of structured models, rather, the transformation of instances (i.e. the actual contents of those structures)...