Michael Bhlen

E-Government: Towards Electronic Democracy: International Conference, TCGOV 2005, Bolzano, Italy, March 2-4, 2005, Proceedings - Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Michael Bhlen 2005 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.; Also available in print.; Also issued online.; Electronic reproduction.; UK: MyiLibrary; 2008. Table of Contents: e-Democracy: Improving Citizen Participation and Policy Making.- Using Weblogs to Support Local Democracy.- Web-Based Tools for Policy Evaluation.- Can Online Map-Based Applications Improve Citizen Participation?.- e-Democracy: Experiences from Different Countries.- Interactive Tools for e-Democracy: Examples from Switzerland.- Public Budget Dialogue An Innovative Approach to E-Participation.- Enhancing e-Democracy Via Fiscal Transparency: A Discussion Based on China s Experience.- Political and Societal Implications.- Third Way e-Government: The Case for Local Devolution.- Urban Versus Regional Divide: Comparing and Classifying Digital Divide .- e-Citizen: Why Waiting for the Governments?.- Security for e-Government Services.- A Zero Knowledge Proof for Subset Selection from a Family of Sets with Applications to Multiparty/Multicandidate Electronic Elections.- A Protocol for Anonymous and Accurate E-Polling.- Model Driven Security for Inter-organizational Workflows in e-Government.- Semantic Web Technologies for e-Government.- e-Government: A Legislative Ontology for the SIAP Parliamentary Management System.- No (e-) Democracy Without (e-) Knowledge.- Towards a Semantically-Driven Software Engineering Environment for eGovernment.- Architectures for Government Application Integration.- Towards Requirements for a Reference Model for Process Orchestration in e-Government.- A Distributed Architecture for Supporting e-Government Cooperative Processes.- eGovernment Service Marketplace: Architecture and Implementation.- Case Studies for Government Application Integration.- Towards Building E-Government on the Grid.- Applying the ISO RM-ODP Standard in E-Government.- Decision Support Systems.- Quixote: Supporting Group Decisions Through the Web.- UNICAP: Efficient Decision Support for Academic Resource and Capacity Management.- A Methodology Framework for Calculating the Cost of e-Government Services.- Managerial and Financial Aspects of E-Government Projects.- Good Practice in e-Government: Management over Methods?.- Participatory Budget Formation Through the Web.- On the Transition to an Open Source Solution for Desktop Office Automation.- e-Procurement.- Public eProcurement in Action: Policies, Practices and Technologies.- An Integrated Approach in Healthcare e-Procurement: The Case-Study of the ASL of Viterbo."Publisher Marketing: 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."

Contributor Bio:  Bohlen, Michael University of Zurich, Switzerland