This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2023, held in Budapest, Hungary, in September 2023, in conjunction with the IFIP WG 8.5 Conference on Electronic Government (EGOV 2023) and the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM 2023).
A total of 38 full papers has been carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. Eight of the accepted papers are included in this book. They were organized in topical sections as follows: E-participation; digital transformation; digital technology; and digital sovereignty.
E-Participation.- The case for a broader approach to e-participation
research: Hybridity, isolation and system orientation.- Identifying
institutional, contextual and dimension-based patterns in public strategic
planning processes.- Participatory Budgeting in Budapest: Navigating the
Trade-offs of Digitalisation, Resilience, and Inclusiveness Amid
Crisis.- Residents voices on proposals: Analysing a participatory budgeting
project in Seoul using topic modelling.- Digital Transformation.- Barriers to
the Introduction of Artificial Intelligence to Support Communication Experts
in Media and the Public Sector to Combat Fake News and
Misinformation.- Structuring Continuous Education Offers for
E-Government-Competence Acquisition: A Morphological Box.- Institutional
re-design for a digital era - learning from cases of automation.- Digital
Technology.- How Search Engines See European Women.- From Integration to Data
Sharing - How Developers Subvert the Public Sector.- Digital
Sovereignty.- Shaping a Data Commoning Polity: Prospects and Challenges of a
European Digital Sovereignty.
