Electronic Participation

The 16 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers are clustered under the following topical sections: digital participation, digital society, digital government and legal issues.

Digital Participation.- Youths' digital participation in the early phases of COVID-19 lockdown.- Discovering Sense of Community enabling factors for Public and Government Staff in Online Public Engagement.- Understanding civic engagement on social media based on users' motivation to contribute.- Digital Society.- Researching Digital Society: Using Data-Mining to Identify Relevant Themes from an Open Access Journal.- Whose Agenda Is It Anyway? The Effect of Disinformation on COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy in the Netherlands.- A conceptual model for approaching the design of anti-disinformation tools.- User needs for a mobility app to support living in rural areas.- Adoption of E-Government Requirements to Higher Education Institutions Regarding the Digital Transformation.- Digital Government.- Developing Cross-border E-governance: Exploring Interoperability and Cross-border Integration.- Accountable Federated Machine Learning in Government: Engineering andManagement Insights.- Agile Development for Digital Government Services: Challenges and Success Factors.- Data-driven Personalized E-government Services: Literature Review and Case Study.- Legal Issues.- Application of process modelling and simulation to evaluate administrative burdens at the law-making stage.- Evaluating Second Generation Cross-Country Open Legal Data Infrastructures Using Value Models.- Analysing the implementation of electronic communication strategies through legislation.- The accountability of intelligence and law enforcement agencies in information search activities.-