This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2025, held in Krems, Austria, during August 31–September 4, 2025.The 21 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions.The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Foundations and Frameworks of eParticipation; AI and Algorithmic Systems in Public Administration; Governance, Collaboration, and Pol...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2024, held in Ghent, Belgium, during September 3–5, 2024.The 15 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The conference is dedicated to digital or electronic government, open government, local government (smart cities), smart governance, artificial intelligence (AI), e-democracy, policy informatics, and...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2021, held in Granada, Spain, in September 2021, in conjunction with IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government (EGOV 2021), the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM 2021).The 16 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers are clustered under the following topical sections: digital participation, ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2019, held in Linköping, Sweden, in August/September 2020, in conjunction with the 19th IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP International Conference on Electronic Government (EGOV 2020) and the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM 2020). The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 11 full papers presented were carefu...