eRulemaking at the Crossroads, v2.0 - A dg.o2008 Pre-Conference Workshop http://tiny.cc/F0a6X 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.oworkshop 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 shulman@pitt.eduThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it * Tom Bruce, Cornell University tom.bruce@cornell.edu For more information on the dg.o 2008 conference, please visit: http://www.dgo2008.org/ -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Director, Sara Fine Institute School of Information Sciences Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Program University Center for Social and Urban Research http://qdap.ucsur.pitt.edu University of Pittsburgh 121 University Place, Suite 600 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 412.624.3776 (v) 412.624.4810 (f) http://shulman.ucsur.pitt.edu Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net