Submission of papers |
5th and 20th June 2008 |
Notification to authors |
20th and 30th June 2008 |
Camera ready papers |
25th July 2008 |
Conference Days |
24-28 September 2008 |
Detailed Schedule |
24/9: Welcoming |
24-25/9: Special Sessions |
25-27/9: Main Tracks |
27-28/9:
Excursions |
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Main Tracks
MAIN TRACK A: Government and Democracy in the Knowledge Society
Subjects covered include, but are not limited to:
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Challenges and foundations of e-Democracy
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Concepts and models of e-Democracy
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E-Democracy strategies and initiatives
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E-Democracy on the international, national, regional, and local level
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Drivers and barriers for e-Democracy
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Case studies and best (or worst) practice studies illustrating success or failure of e-Democracy
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Development and implementation issues of e-Democracy instruments (especially in the fields of e-Participation and e-Voting)
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Actions against cyber terrorism
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Citizen journalists
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Effective participation models
Democratic Internet - Foundations, Ideas, Approaches, and New Perspectives.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Foundations of democratic internet
- Requirements for democratic internet
- Policies
- Open forums
- Approaches to the democratic internet
- New models of interaction
- Blogs, wikis, folksonomies, social networks and online communities
- Marketplace of ideas
- Access to technology and the digital divide
- Effects of technology on social interactions, families, communities
- Social capital
- Blogs and public conversation
- Virtual versus real communities
- Anonymity and freedom of expression
- Privacy
- Databases and their effect on an individual's privacy
- Intellectual property, file sharing, software piracy
- Effects of globalisation
- Citizen journalists
- Cyberactivism
- NGOs (nonprofits) in today's global information sphere
- Web 2.0 and Social Web Approaches to Democratic Internet
- Actions against cyber terrorism
Free/Libre and Open Source Software as a Foundation for E-Democracy
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Understanding the FOSS community as a democratic foundation
- Use of FOSS for e-democracy Systems
- Strategies for the deployment of FOSS tools in government
- Case studies
- Open-democracy systems
Participation in Democracy for All - the Society of Active Citizens, an E-Democracy Primer
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Participatory democracy
- Participation in policies, programmes and plans
- Open access to democracy
- Access to information
- Public participation
- Access to justice
- Access to learning/health/education/work
- Participation in drafting of laws and regulations
- Social forums
- Internet voting
- Effective participation models
- Emerging technologies and participation [Web 2.0]
- Developing new methods of consultation
- Developing new ways for communities to create a shared future though visioning
- Creating new democratic spaces in which people can meet, learn about and discuss issues
- Showing the benefits of participative approaches
- Anti-apathy approaches
Knowledge Management for Ubiquitous E-Government in the Semantic Web Era
- Knowledge Management Strategies for E-government
- Knowledge flows and implications to E-government
- Communities of Practices and provision of E-government services
- Semantic Web-enabled resource retrieval in E-Government
- Semantic Social Networking for E-governemnt
- Social Capital and Ubiquitous E-Government
- Managing artifacts through ontologies
- Approaches to annotation of resources for Effective E-government
- Regulatory ontologies: implications for E-government
- Scientific knowledge organization and ontologies
- New roles and competencies of E-government taskforce in Semantic, metadata-intensive institutions
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Important dates
| Submission of papers |
| 2th June 2008 |
| Notification to authors |
| 30th June 2008 |
| Camera ready papers |
| 25th July 2008 |
Sponsors
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