High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Electronic rulemaking (also known as eRulemaking and e-rulemaking) is the use of digital technologies by government agencies in the rulemaking and decision making processes. An interdisciplinary electronic rulemaking research community has formed as a result of National Science Foundation funding under the auspices of the Digital Government Program. Harvard University published a 2003 workshop report on the avenues for future research and the University of Pittsburgh published a 2004 stakeholder report assessing the widely discussed "Internet Changes Everything" thesis put forward by Professor Stephen Johnson in a 1998 law review article.