Despite the progress made by government 2.0 in the policy agenda, much of the debate is still on the potential opportunities and risks, with government 2.0 evangelist emphasizing the great benefits of crowdsourcing and leveraging collective intelligence, and skeptics pointing to the risks of wishful thinking, to the limits of transparency, and to the hype about its impact. It is due time therefore for an in-depth critical reflection on government 2.0, taking stock of the lessons learnt from the implementation so far and designing the emerging trends. This is the objective of the forthcoming edition of the ePractice Journal.

Contributions are welcome on government 2.0 of both an empirical and theoretical nature, from a policy or technical perspective, from different disciplines, and particularly as relevant input in the definition of European policies on eGovernment. By government 2.0 we do not refer only to the adoption of social tools (blog, wiki, social networks etc) in the government context, but to the overall change of values towards a more open and collaborative government. Relevant issues include transparency, re-use of public sector information, public decision-making, open innovation, social media adoption, collective intelligence, and user-generated public services. The application domains cover not only eParticipation, but all areas of government, including both back office and front-office, with particular emphasis on the role of citizens and civil servants.

Further information and article submission: editorial@epractice.eu

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• Language: English
• Length: Full texts of 2 000 - 6 000 words (the word limit may be extended in exceptional cases)
• Executive summary of 200-300 words
• Keywords & keysentence which stand out
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• References according to the guidelines
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Editor-in-Chief: Trond Arne Undheim