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18. November 2010 – 10:32 by John Heaven (TuTech Innovation GmbH)
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Manuel Kripp, MD of E-Voting.cc
Manuel Kripp, Managing Director of PEP-NET member E-Voting.cc, recently visited the US during the mid-term elections, so I was very curious to find out what he had got up to. We spoke about electronic voting machines, the role of social media in the US elections, and the need for change management when introducing E-Voting technology.
To find out what E-Voting.cc does, see their website or my previous interview with Manuel’s predecessor Robert Krimmer.
John Heaven: Hi Manuel. I hear you’ve been travelling recently. What were you up to?
Manuel Kripp: I was invited to participate in the 2010 U.S. election program organised by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), and by the the Electoral Assistance Commission (EAC) to observe the election on Tuesday 2nd November.
The conference was well attended by experts from around the world, including Thomas Wilkie (Chief Executive, IFAS), Doug Chapin (Pew Centre on the States), and Bob Carey (Federal Voting Assistance Program). The Jo C. Baxter prize was presented to Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Chairman of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, for invaluable contributions to democracy in Ghana.
The focus of my visit was on seeing how elections are conducted in other countries from around the world, and comparing the US electoral system with how things are done in Europe.
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19. May 2010 – 09:16 by John Heaven (TuTech Innovation GmbH)
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Photo of Robert Krimmer
When Britons went to vote in the General Election on 6th May, some of them were locked out of the polling booths and were not able to cast their votes. An article on the PublicTechnology website suggested that eVoting could be the answer to this problem, and should be given another chance.
I spoke to Robert Krimmer – Director and Founder of the Competence Center for Electronic Voting in Austria and a founding member of PEP-NET – to find out whether he agreed.
John Heaven: Hi Robert. What is E-Voting.cc, and what do you mean by eVoting?
Robert Krimmer: E-Voting.cc is an Austrian Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) that fosters the development of eVoting. We deal with any type of eVoting – whether electronic machines in polling booths, internet voting, voting through cash machines, mobile phone voting. The important thing is that the act of casting a vote is done electronically.
JH: So does that include the punch-card system that is used in the United States?
RK: No, that is not included because the votes are counted electronically but not cast electronically. We use the Council of Europe’s definition of eVoting.
JH: You have heard about the problems that UK voters had last week: there were complaints about voters queuing for hours only to be turned away at 10pm. Could eVoting have solved this problem, as discussed in a recent PublicTechnology article?
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25. June 2008 – 16:41 by Danish Technological Institute
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On 18 June 2008 Casaba Madarasz from Option.hu Ltd. in Hungary became person number 100 to register as a member of the eParticipation and eDemocracy Network on www.epractice.eu.
The eParticipation and eDemocracy Network is open to all interested in these issues, whether at sub-national, national, European or trans-national levels. The issues covered are potentially broad and often interconnected and includes eEngagement, eDeliberation, eInvolvement, eLegislation and eVoting, as well as eDecision, eRule and ePolicy-making.
To date 103 people are registered as member of the eParticipation and eDemocracy Network. For further details see www.epractice.eu/community/eParticipation
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, Business and Policy Analysis, Danish Technological Institute
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23. April 2008 – 15:37 by CTI
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The Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (CTI) is a non-profit National Research Organisation under the supervision of the Hellenic Ministry of Education. The Institute’s goals are:
- to conduct basic and applied research concerning hardware and software technology, networks and the socio-economic impact of Information Society,
- to design and develop products and services, to support all forms of ICT, education and training in relation to the Information Society, – to provide consulting, management and technical support services, – to promote innovation and transfer of know-how.
CTI executes 25 projects annually on average, financed by the EU and national actions. CTI has also worked as a technical consultant for numerous Ministries for information and telecommunication technologies, in the Greek Public Sector, having therefore significant expertise in the use of ICTs in decision-making processes.
CTI has a modern technical infrastructure, a complete organisational set-up and a remarkable scientific staff of 210 people: experienced researchers, faculty members, computer engineers and technicians, other domain experts, postgraduate students and administrative staff.
CTI’s e-Government Sector (www.teg.cti.gr) is active in a wide range of areas concerning electronic governance:
- Electronic Democracy and security/trust methodologies with emphasis on electronic voting systems.
- Digitization, documentation, management and promotion of content.
- Language processing infrastructures and tools for effective information management
- Enterprise resource management systems, back-office reorganization and web services
Recently, eGov Sector has designed and developed an internet e-voting system, within a national research project.
For more information please visit: www.cti.gr
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