Aim

The European Science Foundation (ESF) has established the program TOWARDS ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY (TED) with the overall objectives:

• To discuss and evaluate how advances of interactive decision-analytic tools might help develop e-Democracy.
• To develop e-Government systems which involve their citizens more fully in the public decision making process.

As part of this program, a conference on interdisciplinary methods and techniques related to the TED program is being held in Bozen-Bolzano in Spring 2005. The conference aims at addressing 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 conference has a strong interdisciplinary character and aims to bring together people from different sectors, including researchers, technology providers, administrative staff, and politicians.

The conference is jointly organized by:

• European Science foundation, TED working group
• Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
• City of Bozen-Bolzano
• IFIP WG 8.5 - Information Systems in Public Administration

News

• 04/13/2005: Photo gallery online
  The online photo gallery shows a number of pictures taken at the TCGOV-2005 conference (here).

• 04/13/2005: Slides are online
  Most of the slides are now available at the full program page (here).

• 02/10/2005: eMayor Clustering Event
  The eMayor Clustering Event about Secure e-Government invites interested participants to give a short presentation. More details are available here.

• 02/01/2005: Conference proceedings online
  The conference proceedings published in Springer's LNAI are online

• 12/01/2005: Call for exhibitions is open
  An exhibition will be orgnized during the conference.

• 11/25/2004: Call for participation is open (online registration).

• 11/19/2004: Author instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready paper are available.

• 09/29/2004: Paper submission is closed.

• 09/08/2004: Deadline extension for paper submission
  The deadline for the submission of research papers has been extended to September 28, 2004.