This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2024, held in Ghent, Belgium, during September 3–5, 2024.The 15 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions.

.- Are children ready for the metaverse? The minefield of virtual participation in digital social spaces with harmful content and behavior. .- Navigating Privacy Regulations: Administrative Burden of Digital Self-Services for Vulnerable Citizens. .- Mitigating administrative burdens: Understanding the role of intermediaries in co-producing digital self-services. .- Getting Rid of It: An Unlearning Perspective on Digital Government Competences. .- Public Management Competencies in a Digitalized World: Lessons from a Global Frontrunner. .- For the fun of IT – – In search for sensemaking of digitalization training program for leaders in schools and pre-schools in Sweden. .- E-participation Without Democracy: Understanding Variation In Digital Engagement In Non-Democracies. .- Sustainable eParticipation through lightweight democracy?. .- Ethical Governance of Emerging Digital Technologies in the Public Sector: insights from Dutch Digital Ethics Commissions. .- Data pollution: Definition and Policy Responses. .- Understanding the problem space for effective use of a Circular Economy Monitor in policy making. .- Exploring Data Altruism as Data Donation: A Review of Concepts, Actors and Objectives. .- A method for the collaborative and semi-automated generation of conceptual models from legal regulations in public organizations. .- Transparency in Open Government Data Portals: An Assessment of Web Tracking Practices across Europe. .- Understanding trust frameworks: goals, components and challenges identified through a case study.