E-Participation in Southern Europe and the Balkans

Euripidis Loukis is Assistant Professor of Information and Decision Support Systems at the University of Aegean, Greece, and also teaches at the National Academy of Public Administration. He has previously been Information Systems Advisor at the Ministry to the Presidency of Government, and Representative of Greece at the European Union in several e-government/e-participation committees.Ann Macintosh is Professor of Digital Governance and Co-director of the Centre of Digital Citizenship at the University of Leeds, UK. She has acted as a specialist advisor for the OECD, the UN and the Commonwealth Secretariat,. In 2009 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Örebro University, Sweden, for recognition of her work in eParticipation.Yannis Charalabidis is Assistant Professor of e-Governance Information Systems at the University of Aegean, Greece and also leads eGovernment & eBusiness Research in the Decision Support Systems Laboratory of National Technical University of Athens. In 2008 he received the Best Paper Award in the Electronic Government – Electronic Participation International Conference.

• 1. Introduction 2. Using Advanced Information Technologies for Increasing Public Participation in the Greek Parliament 3. Electronic Participation Pilots in the Western Balkans: Lessons from the Field 4. Constructing and implementing e-participation tools in the Emilia Romagna Region: Assemblages and Sense Making 5. Learning from e-Participation initiatives of regional and local level authorities in Greece and Spain 6. Using Participative GIS and e-Tools for Involving Citizens of Marmo Platano-Melandro Area in European Programming Activities 7. Participatory Policy Process Design: Lessons Learned from Three European Regions