Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy: Volume 5 Issue 1

A review of the European Union eParticipation action pilot projects

Sotirios Koussouris, Yannis Charalabidis, Dimitrios Askounis

As the society has long ago left the “industrial age” and entered the “information age”, people, enterprises and above all decision makers are constantly trying to get the best…

Do social networking groups support online petitions?

Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos, Steven Sams, Tony Elliman, Guy Fitzgerald

EPetitioning has been emerging as arguably the most important eParticipation institutional activity. This paper aims to provide some insights into how ePetitions are perceived and…

E‐participation readiness of Austrian municipalities

Johann Höchtl, Peter Parycek, Michael Sachs

The purpose of this paper is to depict the present situation of e‐participation initiatives of Austrian municipalities and derives recommendations to further enhance the…

Internet voting in the USA: analysis and commentary

Mohammed Awad, Ernst L. Leiss

The first American internet voting (I‐voting) implementation was in 2000. Since then many attempts and trials have taken place in this field. This paper aims to analyze these…

“The Guarantor”: A web‐centric system for organization and remote monitoring of election events

Sergei Ablameiko, Nikolai Kalosha, Denis Lipen, Vitaly Lipen

The research is aimed at developing an efficient electronic voting platform that would offer distinct advantages over traditional paper ballot voting and the available electronic…

The challenges of informed citizen participation in change

Mark Hughes

The paper analyses discussion about public service organisational innovation and change in strategic plans as a potential source of information informing citizen participation.

Measuring the public value of e‐government: a case study from Sri Lanka

Kanishka Karunasena, Hepu Deng, Mohini Singh

This paper aims to present a case study on the public value of the e‐Sri Lanka program. Four major dimensions of public value creation through e‐government including the delivery…

Guest editorial

Alexander Prosser

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Rebecca Marsh