A Trust-Enhanced Approach to the eParticipation Life Cycle

eParticipation provides a means to involve citizens in eGovernment decisions. The ease of access to eParticipation processes has raised the issue of the trustworthiness of both the institutions promoting processes and the citizens participating in these processes. Our research aims at obtaining a generic eParticipation framework enriched with trust management techniques like the ones used in e-Commerce and social networks. Our work plan includes the following steps: making a systematic review for extract the knowledge base, designing an eParticipation framework definition and incorporating trust techniques, developing support software, implementing several case studies in Spain and Ecuador, and providing results and evaluation.