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eRulemaking at the Crossroads, v2.0 - A dg.o2008 Pre-Conference Workshop
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Sunday May 18, 2008 - 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Overview

The topic of eRulemaking has gained prominence in the Digital Government
research community as well as the federal government. In 2006, a dg.o workshop
examined "eRulemaking at a Crossroads". Over the past seven years, spurred by
funding from the NSF's Digital Government program and other US agencies,
government officials, citizens, activists, business leaders, and a wide range
of scholars at Pitt , CMU , USC-ISI , and Cornell , have converged around the
specific problem of building tools to manage the flow of public comments into
the U.S. federal government. At the same time, the Office of Management and
Budget has overseen the development of government-wide eRulemaking Initiative,
now 5 years old, which created Regulations.Gov , a portal for reviewing all
open rulemakings, and a Federal Docket Management System (FDMS). Meanwhile, a
special committee of the American Bar Association is preparing a report on the
"Status & Future of Federal e-Rulemaking". A vigorous debate still continues
about the utility of mass public comment campaigns and alternate means for
promoting citizen engagement. As a result, despite considerable scholarly and
practitioner interest, eRulemaking is once again at the crossroads.

The target audience for this workshop is a mix of government officials, as well
as researchers from law, public administration, political science, computer
science and other related disciplines. We anticipate presentations or system
demonstrations by the individuals or groups with accepted white papers. Much of
the workshop will be devoted to discussion.

Call for Participation

All presenters at dg.o2008 international research workshops are required to
submit a 2-page white paper to the workshop organizer by April 15, 2008. White
papers must adopt the ACM's 'proceedings' templates that are being used by all
participants in dg.o2008. The ACM's proceedings templates are for use in
Microsoft Word and LaTeX2e. Strict adherence to SIGS style is expected. The
template can be downloaded at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Anyone can register to
attend the workshop without having to prepare a paper or presentation.

Organizers

* Dr. Stuart W. Shulman, University of Pittsburgh
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* Tom Bruce, Cornell University
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For more information on the dg.o 2008 conference, please visit:
http://www.dgo2008.org/