Introduction to the Open and Participatory Government Minitrack

One of the key goals of the Open and Participatory Government minitrack is to examine how people and organizations can develop or be affected by open, transparent and collaborative government processes. Collaboration and transparency build on each other in that an increase in one can increase the other. Both collaboration and transparency then also increase the public’s likelihood that they will participate in the process which lead to more effective tools for civic engagement. There are seven papers in this year's minitrack, which are breifly summarized here.