Thoughtful Approaches to Implementation of Electronic Rulemaking

Abstract

The Internet could fundamentally change the way that both government and public participates in making public policy but changes must be made in our existing civic infrastructure for that. The change in the law causes modifications in the policies/strategies in which this law has been implemented. This paper focuses on approaches to thoughtful implementation of electronic rulemaking could capture public interest, particularly in higher profile rulemakings and how online forums and dialogues can foster greater public participation in making public policy processes at the centre as well as presenting the need of semantic perspectives and semantic web technology to enhance the inference capability and to provide decision making capability.