E-Government: Towards Electronic Democracy International Confere
The TCGOV 2005 international conference on e-government was held at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano during March 2–4, 2005. The conference was initiated by the working group “Towards Electronic Democracy” (TED) of the European Science Foundation and
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Michael Böhlen Johann Gamper Wolfgang Polasek Maria A. Wimmer (Eds.)
E-Government: Towards Electronic Democracy International Conference, TCGOV 2005 Bolzano, Italy, March 2-4, 2005 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Michael Böhlen Johann Gamper Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Faculty of Computer Science Dominikanerplatz 3, 39100 Bozen, Italy E-mail: {boehlen, gamper}@inf.unibz.it Wolfgang Polasek University of Basel Institute of Statistics and Economics Petersplatz 1, 4003 Basel, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] Maria A. Wimmer Federal Chancellery ICT Unit Ballhausplatz 2, 1014 Vienna, Austria E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005920700
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Preface
The TCGOV 2005 international conference on e-government was held at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano during March 2–4, 2005. The conference was initiated by the working group “Towards Electronic Democracy” (TED) of the European Science Foundation and was jointly organized by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, the Municipality of Bozen-Bolzano, the TED Working Group, and the IFIP Working Group 8.5. The conference addressed a large spectrum of issues that are relevant and have to be investigated for a successful transition from the traditional form of government to a new form known as e-government. The main focus was on the following topics: – – – –
improving citizen participation and policy making (e-democracy) government application integration semantic Web technologies for e-government security aspects for e-government services
Two sessions were dedicated to e-democracy, an emerging area within egovernment that seeks to enhance democratic processes and provide increased opportunities for individuals and communities to be involved in governmental decisions. The contributions of these two sessions cover more fundamental res
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