TCGOV 2005
Bozen-Bolzano

TED Conference on e-Government

Electronic democracy: The challenge ahead

March 2–4, 2005    ♦    Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Jointly organized by:



Scientific Program

The program at a glance is here.

Tuesday, March 1, 2005
14:00-18:00Registration
Wednesday, March 2, 2005
08:00-19:00Registration
08:00-18:30Exhibition
09:00-09:30

Opening

Ingeborg Bauer-Polo, Town Councillor of Education and Time Policies, Municipality of Bozen-Bolzano
Roberto Bizzo, Town Councillor of Informatics, Municipality of Bozen-Bolzano
Rita Franceschini, Rector of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Johann Gamper, TCGOV-2005 Organization Chair, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Wolfgang Polasek, TED Working Group of the ESF
Otto Saurer, Assessor for Education and University, Province of South-Tyrol

09:30-10:30

Keynote presentation 1
Chair: Reinhard Riedl

e-Government Calls for e-Governance (slides)
Roland Traunmüller, University of Linz, Austria

10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30

Session 1: e-Democracy: Improving Citizen Participation and Policy Making
Chair: Wolfgang Polasek

Using Weblogs to support Local Democracy
Ann Macintosh, Andy McKay-Hubbard, Danae Shell

Web-based tools for policy evaluation (slides)
Lasse Berntzen, Marte Winsvold

Can online map-based applications improve citizen participation? (slides)
Renate Steinmann, Alenka Krek, Thomas Blaschke

12:30-13:30Lunch
13:30-15:00

Session 2: e-Democracy: Experiences from Different Countries
Chair: Lasse Berntzen

Interactive Tools for e-Democracy: Examples from Switzerland (slides)
Jean-Loup Chappelet, Pierre Kilchenmann

'Public Budget Dialogue' - An Innovative Approach to E-participation (slides)
Stefanie Roeder, Annika Poppenborg, Susanne Michaelis, Oliver Maerker, and Stefan Rene Salz

Enhancing e-Democracy via Fiscal Transparency: A Discussion Based on China's Experience (slides)
Ling Lan

15:00-15:30Coffee break
15:30-17:00

Session 3: Political and Societal Implications
Chair: Josef Makolm

Third Way e-Government: the case for local devolution
Ailsa Kolsaker

Urban vs. Regional Divide: Comparing and Classifying Digital Divide (slides)
Enrico Ferro, Marco Cantamessa, Emilio Paolucci

e-Citizen: Why Waiting For the Governments? (slides)
Armando Rech Filho

17:00-17:15Coffee break
17:15-19:00

Session 4: Poster presentation

Drinks and snacks will be served during the poster session.

20:00-21:30 Welcome reception

Giovanni Salghetti-Drioli, Mayor of the City of Bozen-Bolzano
Friedrich Schmidl, President of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Thursday, March 3, 2005
08:00-18:30Registration
08:00-18:30Exhibition
09:00-10:00

Keynote presentation 2
Chair: Michael Böhlen

E-Government: Privacy Policies and Mechanisms (slides)
David Basin, ETH Zurich and Zurich Information Security Center, Switzerland

10:00-10:30Coffee break
10:30-12:00

Session 5: Security for e-Government Services
Chair: Nineta Polemi

A Zero Knowledge proof for Subset Selection from a Family of Sets with Applications to Multiparty/Multicandidate Electronic Elections (slides)
Tassos Dimitriou, Dimitris Foteinakis

A Protocol for Anonymous and Accurate E-polling (slides)
Danilo Bruschi, Andrea Lanzi, Igor Nai Fovino

Model Driven Security for Inter-Organizational Workflows in e-Government
Ruth Breu, Michael Hafner, Barbara Weber, Andrea Novak

12:00-13:30Lunch
13:30-15:00

Session 6: Semantic Web Technologies for e-Government
Chair: Fabrizio Ruggeri

E-Government: A Legislative Ontology for the SIAP Parliamentary Management System (slides)
C. Costilla, J.P. Palacios, J.Cremades, J.Vila

No (e-)Democracy without (e-)Knowledge (slides)
Giovanni M. Sacco

Towards a Semantically-driven Software Engineering Environment for eGovernment
Dimitris Apostolou, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Tomas Pariente Lobo, Barbara Thoenssen

2nd eBZ Workshop on e-Government

15:00-15:30Coffee break
15:30-17:00

Session 7: Architectures for Government Application Integration
Chair: Reinhard Riedl

Towards Requirements for a Reference Model for Process Orchestration in e-Government
Jeffrey Gortmaker, Marijn Janssen, Rene W. Wagenaar

A Distributed Architecture for Supporting eGovernment Cooperative Processes (slides)
Mariangela Contenti, Massimo Mecella, Alessandro Termini, Roberto Baldoni

eGovernment Service Marketplace: Architecture and Implementation
Elena Mugellini, Maria Chiara Pettenati, Omar Abou Khaled, Franco Pirri

2nd eBZ Workshop on e-Government

17:00-17:30Coffee break
17:30-18:30

Session 8: Case Studies for Government Application Integration
Chair: Pim Hengeveld

Towards Building E-Government on the Grid
Ying Li, Minglu Li, Yue Chen

Applying the ISO RM-ODP standard in e-government (slides)
B. Meneklis, A. Kaliontzoglou, D. Polemi, C. Douligeris

2nd eBZ Workshop on e-Government

20:00Conference dinner
Friday, March 4, 2005
08:00-16:30Registration
08:00-18:30Exhibition
09:00-10:00

Keynote presentation 3
Chair: Jean-Loup Chappelet

eDemocracy: Challenges and Actions in the EU (slides)
Athanassios Chrissafis, European Commission, DG Information Society, Unit E-Government

10:00-10:30Coffee break
10:30-12:00

Session 9: Decision Support Systems
Chair: Wolfgang Polasek

QUIXOTE: Supporting group decisions through the web (slides)
J.A. Rubio, D. Rios Insua, J. Rios, E. Fernandez

UNICAP: Efficient Decision Support for Academic Resource and Capacity Management (slides)
Svetlana Vinnik, Marc H. Scholl

A Methodology Framework for Calculating the Cost of e-Government Services (slides)
Elias A. Hadzilias

eMayor Clustering Event

12:00-13:30Lunch
13:30-15:00

Session 10: Managerial and Financial Aspects of E-Government Projects
Chair: Stefanie Roeder

Good Practice in e-Government: Management Over Methods?
Lee Eddowes

Participatory budget formation through the web (slides)
J. Rios, D. Rios Insua, E. Fernandez, J.A. Rivero

On the Transition to an Open Source Solution for Desktop Office Automation
Bruno Rossi, Barbara Russo, Paolo Zuliani, Giancarlo Succi

eMayor Clustering Event

15:00-15:30Coffee break
15:30-16:30

Session 11: e-Procurement
Chair: Enrico Ferro

Public eProcurement in action: Policies, practices and technologies (slides)
Catherine Hardy, Susan P. Williams

An integrated approach in healthcare e-procurement: the case-study of the ASL of Viterbo (slides)
Tommaso Federici

eMayor Clustering Event

19:00-20:00 Visiting the Ötzi Museum
Saturday, March 5, 2005
08:00-18:00Skiing

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