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Regulation room: moving towards civic participation 2.0

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dg.o '12: Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research

Pages 294 - 295

https://doi.org/10.1145/2307729.2307791

Published: 04 June 2012 Publication History

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Rulemaking is one of the U. S. government's most important policymaking methods. Although broad transparency and participation rights are part of its legal structure, significant barriers prevent effective engagement by many groups of interested citizens. RegualtionRoom, an experimental open-government partnership between academic researchers and government agencies, is a socio-technical participation system that uses multiple methods to alert and effectively engage new voices in rulemaking.

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Regulation room: moving towards civic participation 2.0
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Computing in government
  2. Enterprise computing
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing systems and tools
      1. Asynchronous editors
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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dg.o '12: Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research

June 2012

324 pages

ISBN:9781450314039

DOI:10.1145/2307729

Conference Chair:
John Bertot
University of Maryland
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Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes
Universidad de las Americas, Puebla
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Sehl Mellouli
Laval University

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Urban R(2014)Representation patterns for cultural heritage resourcesProceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology10.1002/meet.1450500112350:1(1-4)Online publication date: 8-May-2014
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Urban RBouthillier FJu B(2013)Representation patterns for cultural heritage resourcesProceedings of the 76th ASIS&T Annual Meeting: Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking Information Boundaries10.5555/2655780.2655904(1-4)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2655780.2655904

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