Keynote Speakers

Keynote Presentation 1 Title: e-Government Calls for e-Governance Speaker: Prof. Roland Traunmüller, University of Linz, Austria Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2005 Abstract: e-Government has a history and concepts on Government and IT have changed over time. Awareness emerged three decades ago starting with the term Administrative Data Processing; this followed by Information Systems in Public Administration - as to name the rspv. IFIP Working Group 8.5 founded in 1990. End-nineties the notion e-Government came in usage - sometimes with slight changes: e.g. replacing "e" with "m" or "k"; others such as "drop the e" to be seen as a radical view. Latest vision is e-Governance. Basis for the new paradigm is a focus on the expectations of citizen - all what THEY want is living under good governance. For this with main traits are broadly favoured: democratisation, coherence, accountability, transparency, effectiveness. Thus as consequence of Governance Government per se has to be regarded in a broader frame. So the idea of good governance leads to a demand of good Government with four key marks: citizen-centric in attitude; cooperative in nature; seamless and joined up seen from the clients; multilevel and polycentric in composition. As a further consequence IT has to support "governance in the broad" so sustaining the whole policy cycle; so democratic deliberation, policy analysis, legal drafting; implementation, evaluation etc have to be covered as well.
Keynote Presentation 2 Title: E-Government: Privacy Policies and Mechanisms Speaker: Prof. David Basin, ETH Zurich and Zurich Information Security Center, Switzerland Date: Thursday, March 3, 2005 Abstract: As government administrations increasingly go on-line, there is a growing concern about how privacy-sensitive data is stored and used. Laws can partially address this problem by defining requirements, but in the end these requirements must fulfilled by the IT systems that process the data. In this talk, we will examine, in general terms, why this problem is so difficult. We will see how privacy requirements differ from conventional security requirements, and analyze some of the challenges involved in formalizing privacy requirements and designing system mechanisms to ensure that these requirements are respected. Along the way, we will also touch upon several different privacy-related research topics that are being carried out within my group.
Keynote Presentation 3 Title: eDemocracy: Challenges and Actions in the EU Speaker: Dr. Athanassios Chrissafis, European Commission, DG Information Society, Unit E-Government Date: Friday, March 4, 2005