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26. February 2010 – 10:32 by E-Voting.CC
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Today, on Friday 26th of February, the extended deadline for paper submission for the EVOTE2010 conference is due! The last chance to submit you scientific papers and participate in our renowned issue of our fourth issue of the International Conference on E-Voting - EVOTE2010.
The conference will take place from July 21st to July 24th in Bregenz at the beautiful lake Constance.
We are looking forward to another highly international and very interesting event!
Daniel Botz - E-Voting.CC
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16. February 2010 – 15:01 by E-Voting.CC
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In response to the large number of requests from the community, the organizing committee of the 4th Electronic Voting Conference EVOTE2010 decided to extend the deadline for submission of papers by two weeks from Friday February 12 to Friday February 26, 2010.
Please find further information, templates and the call for papers here.
I hope this helps to finish your papers in time!
Daniel Botz, E-Voting.CC
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28. January 2010 – 12:59 by Centre for E-Government
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Extended Call for Papers
You can submit a paper at the conference website until
1st of March 2010. EDem10 unites many different disciplines and promotes interdisciplinary approaches to E-Democracy. On primary aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners. We would like to invite individuals from academic, applied and practitioner backgrounds as well as public administration offices, public bodies, NGO/NPOs, education institutions and independent organisations to submit their research and project papers.
Registration
Please visit the conference website to register at EDem10. Members of PEP-NET benefit from reduced fees; please indicate your Special Status when registering! Conference Date: 6th and 7th of May 2010.
Programme
We are still working on the programme, but confirmed keynote speakers and workshops promise an exceptional event. There will be a PEP-NET Workshop! Please visit the Conference Website for details and regular updates.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
- Stevan Harnad - American Scientist Open Access Forum; Universite du Quebec a Montreal, CAN; University of Southampton, UK
- Ismael Peña-López - Open University of Catalonia, School of Law and Political Science, Barcelona, Spain
- Jochen Scholl - The Information School, University of Washington, USA
- Micah L. Sifry - Personal Democracy Forum, TechPresident, New York, USA
- Andy Williamson - Hansard Society, London, UK
Further Information
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24. November 2009 – 16:59 by POLITECH
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Have you ever wondered what the European Commission (EC) and the European Parliament (EP) do to diminish the democratic deficit in the EU and to involve the citizens into decision-making processes of the European Union? You can now see for yourself and participate in one of the most important events of 2009.
The projects co-funded by the EC under the eParticipation Preparatory Action are organising an eParticipation Conference, which will be held in Brussels on Tuesday, 15th of December 2009 at the European Parliament (Rue Wiertz 60, 1047 Brussels, Belgium, Room A.3E2) .
The development and wide use of powerful new ICT applications is transforming the way citizens and civil society interact, debate and participate in public life. These new tools have enormous potential to enhance decision-making processes by involving large numbers of EU citizens.
As the eParticipation Preparatory Action, an initiative of the European Parliament launched in 2006, reaches its conclusion, this eParticipation Conference is being organized to demonstrate progress and results in the use of Information and Communication Technologies to enhance citizens’ participation in democratic decision-making. In parallel, there will be an exhibition of project results produced in the context of the Preparatory Action. This is a unique one-time opportunity to see all the projects in one place and to engage into a conversation with projects’ leaders and representatives.
Register to the conference before 10 December 2009 at: http://eparticipation.eventbrite.com (registration password: momentum)
Note: The Conference is free, but only registered delegates will be allowed entry for security reasons. All the participants should have some type of identification documents (for EU nationals - passports or national ID; for people from outside of the EU - valid passport documents are necessary).
For further information, please visit: www.ep-momentum.eu or contact: momentum@atc.gr
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20. October 2009 – 15:22 by Centre for E-Government
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“A revolution doesn’t happen when a society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviours.“ (Clay Shirky)
EDem10
4th International Conference on eDemocracy
6. and 7. May 2010
Danube-University Krems
Call for Papers
Scientific eDemocracy visions and models have been developed since the 1960s, but it is now, during the first decade of the 21st Century, that they are becoming reality, being tested and implemented. Extensive IT provides the necessary basis, but it is not the developments in IT alone that are responsible for successful eDemocracy projects – it is due all those who use and apply them, as they adopt new behaviours and change old ones. The new, digital generation lives and breathes new values: they collaborate, compile content together, share their ideas, create networks on social platforms and organise themselves quickly and simply. The new values held, the new behaviours adopted, the changed mindset, along with improved usability and a still-increasing use of the internet, has led to a rapid and radical change in our society.
The EDem10 focuses on these changes which can be seen occurring in different areas and which are manifest in different way:
- Transparency & Communication (freedom of information, free information access, openness, information sharing, blogging, micro-blogging, social networks, data visualization, eLearning, empowering, …);
- Participation & Collaboration (innovation malls, innovation communities, bottom up, top down, social networks, engagement and accountability, collaborative culture, collaboration between C2C, G2C, …);
- Architecture, Concepts & Effects (access and openness, user generated content, peer production, network effects, power laws, long tail, harnessing the power of the crowd, crowd sourcing, social web, semantic web, …);
- Different Fields: open government initiatives, eDemocracy, eParticipation, eVoting, eDeliberation;
- Approaches and Disciplines: law & legal studies, social sciences, computer sciences, political sciences, psychology, sociology, applied computer gaming and simulation, democratic theory, media and communication sciences;
- Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches;
- Research Methods.
On primary aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners. We would like to invite individuals from academic, applied and practitioner backgrounds as well as public administration offices, public bodies, NGO/NPOs, education institutions and independent organisations to submit their research and project papers.
The main conference language is English; submissions in German (with an abstract in English) are also acceptable.
Further Information:
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1. September 2009 – 10:45 by Centre for E-Government
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Next Monday and Tuesday, 7th and 8th of September 2009, the University of Economics and Business in Vienna will host the annual Conference on eDemocracy – Edem09.
The Centre for E-Government, Danube-University Krems, will report live from this conference. You can follow our reports on our Blog, on Twitter and on FriendFeed.
Twitter - e_society
Follow the live updates by searching for the hashtag #edem09. We will also try to include your questions into the ongoing discussions.
FriendFeed - esociety
FriendFeed will be updated with Tweets from Twitter and Photos from Flickr. The platform gives you the opportunity to discuss and comment certain statements.
Blog - DigitalGovernment
We will publish summaries of speeches and presentations continuously on our Blog. On our Blog you will find most detailed information.
PEP-Net Benefits
Unfortunately there has been a mistake in the earlier announcement we put on this Blog. PEP-Net Members can actually register with the author’s rate: EUR 95,- In order to profit from your PEP-Net membership, please note your PEP-Net member status when registering. If you have any questions, please contact julia.landgraf@wu.ac.at .
Further Information
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6. August 2009 – 08:36 by E-Voting.CC
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Our Conference Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Electronic Voting, which was held from 
7th to 9th of August 2008 in Castle Hofen, are now online. Exactly one year after the opening session we are glad to publish them on the web. You can download the PDF here.
This year’s proceedings contain the seventeen papers selected for the presentation at the conference out of more than forty submissions. To assure scientific quality, the selection was based on a strict and anonymous review process. The papers cover the following subjects: e-voting experiences, social, legal, political, democratic and security issues of e-voting, as well as solutions on how to (re)design election workflows, and finally how to implement and observe electronic voting systems.
You can order the proceedings in print for EUR 19,70 (+shipping & handling) by sending an e-mail to office@e-voting.cc.
For citation and download purposes please use:
Krimmer, R., Grimm, R. (Eds.): Electronic Voting 2008, GI Lecture Notes in Informatics, P-131, Bonn, 2008.
Daniel Botz, E-Voting.CC
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15. April 2009 – 09:39 by Centre for E-Government
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CALL FOR PAPERS EDEM09 http://edem2009.ocg.at/
2009 Conference on Electronic Democracy
7.-8.9.2009 University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna, Austria
Submissions deadline: 17 May 2009 Read the rest of this entry »
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5. December 2008 – 13:59 by E-Voting.CC
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On Wednesday 3rd December from 9 am to 5 pm an enquete was held in “Palais Harrach” in Vienna. It’s topic was “A Chance for Political Participation through New Media”. The enquete was organized by the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research (BMWF), which initiated a project this year to open an E-Voting channel for students who cannot attend the student union elections physically.
These elections are scheduled for May 2009. The aim of this “one-day-conference” was to provide a platform for discussion between Austrian and international stakeholders.
This goal was truly achieved as the discussion was intense and also quite controversial. Representatives of the student union and also private persons criticized amongst others that E-Voting would open new ways for manipulation and possible electoral fraud. Some have also questioned whether the voting principles of the free and secret vote could be assured using E-Voting. There also were voices, for example Heinz Mayer’s, who is Professor for administrative law, who stated that postal voting would pose similar questions. In his opinion the step towards postal voting has been the wrong signal.
On the contrary there were experts who spoke in favour of an electronic voting channel for this election. Minister Hahn, who called the conference, said it is necessary to innovate voting, facing a globalized future. Pippa Norris, from Harvard University, found evidence in her latest research that the rate of media usage and the rate of openness to new cultures are strongly connected. Peter Filzmaier, a renowned Austrian political scientist, outlined the differing views of proponents and opponents and stated that an additional electronic voting channel would, in his opinion, account for our global societies’ needs for more mobility.
Robert Krimmer from E-Voting.CC gave an overview about the E-Voting project and explained its planned outline: The Internet voting channel will be available during the week before the paper voting. Authentication shall be established via a signature card - The BMWF sponsors 10.000 card readers for students who activate the citizens card function on their “e-card”, which is a card used in healthcare. There shall be no re-votation possibility and once a voter has decided to vote electronically, the paper vote is prohibited, but of course everybody has the free choice to use whatever channel.
The project is in an advanced planning phase, the implementation will commence at the beginning of the year. The slides of the presentation are available here.
There also were several other experts of great interdisciplinary scope who contributed to this enquete, for details please visit the link to the enquete above.
In the afternoon there were three workshops dealing with the topics:
- “Citizens card as key for participation”
- “Technical solutions for E-Voting” and
- “Juridical aspects of E-Democracy”
In a wrap up session the conclusions of these workshops were drawn, although the most controversial was the third one dealing with E-Democracy, which has been drafted above.
All in all it was an interesting enquete which contributed to the Austrian discussion about the topic.
Daniel Botz, E-Voting.CC
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6. October 2008 – 15:07 by Maren Luebcke
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From September 29th till the 30th the edem08 conference took place in beautiful Krems / Austria. Organized by the Danube University together with the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration two interesting days date back. After evote08 (organised by pep-net member e-voting.cc) the edem08 conference focussed on the broad spectrum of eDemocracy in general. Read the rest of this entry »
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