Foundations and Visionary -- Towards a Systematic Exploitation of Web 2.0 and Simulation Modeling Tools in Public Policy Process -- Don’t Vote, Evolve! -- The Use of Expressives in Online Political Talk: Impeding or Facilitating the Normative Goals of Deliberation? -- ICT’s for Democracy in Latin America? -- eParticipation Initiatives -- eParticipation Initiatives in Europe: Learning from Practitioners -- Tracking and Explaining E-Participation in India -- e-Participation Experiences and Local Government in Catalonia: An Explanatory Analysis -- The AUGMENT Project: Co-constructive Mapping and Support of Accessibility and Participation -- Genres of Participation in Social Networking Systems: A Study of the 2009 Norwegian Parliamentary Election -- Political Deliberation in the Blogosphere: The Case of the 2009 Portuguese Elections -- Understanding and Evaluating eParticipation -- On Sustainable eParticipation -- Widening the Disciplinary Scope of eParticipation. Reflections after a Research on Tourism and Cultural Heritage -- A Survey on Participation at Geneva’s Constituent Assembly -- A Regional Model for E-Participation in the EU: Evaluation and Lessons Learned from VoicE -- Service Guidelines of Public Meeting’s Webcasts: An Experience -- Information and Communication Technologies and eVoting -- Semantic Web Standards and Ontologies for Legislative Drafting Support -- Using Gis Tools to Support E_Participation – A Systematic Evaluation -- Do Voting Advice Applications Have an Effect on Electoral Participation and Voter Turnout? Evidence from the 2007 Swiss Federal Elections -- An Integrated Application of Security Testing Methodologies to e-voting Systems.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2010, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in August/September, 2010.