E-Government: Towards Electronic Democracy

1. Front Matter

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2. e-Democracy: Improving Citizen Participation and Policy Making

   1. Using Weblogs to Support Local Democracy

      • Ann Macintosh, Andy McKay-Hubbard, Danae Shell

      Pages 1-12

   2. Web-Based Tools for Policy Evaluation

      • Lasse Berntzen, Marte Winsvold

      Pages 13-24

   3. Can Online Map-Based Applications Improve Citizen Participation?

      • Renate Steinmann, Alenka Krek, Thomas Blaschke

      Pages 25-35

3. e-Democracy: Experiences from Different Countries

   1. Interactive Tools for e-Democracy: Examples from Switzerland

      • Jean-Loup Chappelet, Pierre Kilchenmann

      Pages 36-47

   2. “Public Budget Dialogue” – An Innovative Approach to E-Participation

      • Stefanie Roeder, Annika Poppenborg, Susanne Michaelis, Oliver Märker, Stefan René Salz

      Pages 48-56

   3. Enhancing e-Democracy Via Fiscal Transparency: A Discussion Based on China’s Experience

      • Ling Lan

      Pages 57-69

4. Political and Societal Implications

   1. Third Way e-Government: The Case for Local Devolution

      • Ailsa Kolsaker

      Pages 70-80

   2. “Urban Versus Regional Divide: Comparing and Classifying Digital Divide”

      • Enrico Ferro, Marco Cantamessa, Emilio Paolucci

      Pages 81-90

   3. e-Citizen: Why Waiting for the Governments?

      • Armando Rech Filho

      Pages 91-99

5. Security for e-Government Services

   1. A Zero Knowledge Proof for Subset Selection from a Family of Sets with Applications to Multiparty/Multicandidate Electronic Elections

      • Tassos Dimitriou, Dimitris Foteinakis

      Pages 100-111

   2. A Protocol for Anonymous and Accurate E-Polling

      • Danilo Bruschi, Igor Nai Fovino, Andrea Lanzi

      Pages 112-121

   3. Model Driven Security for Inter-organizational Workflows in e-Government

      • Ruth Breu, Michael Hafner, Barbara Weber, Andrea Novak

      Pages 122-133

6. Semantic Web Technologies for e-Government

   1. e-Government: A Legislative Ontology for the ‘SIAP’ Parliamentary Management System

      • Carmen Costilla, Juan P. Palacios, José Cremades, Jorge Vila

      Pages 134-146

   2. No (e-)Democracy Without (e-)Knowledge

      • Giovanni M. Sacco

      Pages 147-156

   3. Towards a Semantically-Driven Software Engineering Environment for eGovernment

      • Dimitris Apostolou, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Tomas Pariente Lobo, Barbara Thoenssen

      Pages 157-168

7. Architectures for Government Application Integration

   1. Towards Requirements for a Reference Model for Process Orchestration in e-Government

      • Jeffrey Gortmaker, Marijn Janssen, René W. Wagenaar

      Pages 169-180

   2. A Distributed Architecture for Supporting e-Government Cooperative Processes

      • Mariangela Contenti, Massimo Mecella, Alessandro Termini, Roberto Baldoni

      Pages 181-192

   3. eGovernment Service Marketplace: Architecture and Implementation

      • Elena Mugellini, Maria Chiara Pettenati, Omar Abou Khaled, Franco Pirri

      Pages 193-204

8. Case Studies for Government Application Integration

   1. Towards Building E-Government on the Grid

      • Ying Li, Minglu Li, Yue Chen

      Pages 205-212

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 ofBozen-Bolzano,theMunicipalityofBozen-Bolzano,theTEDWorkingGroup, 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- government that seeks to enhance democratic processes and provide increased opportunities for individuals and communities to be involved in governmental decisions.Thecontributionsofthesetwosessionscovermorefundamentalresults and insights as well as experiences from di?erent countries. Another focus was on government application integration and the use of - mantic Web technologies, which are important technical aspects on the agenda of e-government research. Di?erent architectures for the integration and orch- tration of distributed services and processes were presented along with two case studies. Three papers about Semantic Web technologies discussed the use of ontologies in e-government.

• decision support system
• democracy
• e-government
• proving
• security
• semantic web
• service-oriented computing

• Department of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen, Italy

  Michael Böhlen

• Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

  Johann Gamper

• Institute of Statistics and Economics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  Wolfgang Polasek

• Institute for IS Research, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

  Maria A. Wimmer

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