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DEMO-net newsletter January 2007

Call for papers: Electronic voting 2008

The 3rd international conference on Electronic voting taking place 6-9 August 2008 in Austria.

New title: The challenged identity of a field: The state of the art of eParticipation research

By Rony Medaglia.

New title: Mapping eParticipation: Four Central Research Challenges

by Jeremy Rose and Clive Carlton Sanford

DEMO-net newsletter January 2008

 

New title: Measuring the diffusion of eParticipation: A survey on Italian local government, by Rony Medaglia

Information Polity: The International Journal of Government & Democracy in the Information Age, Vol. 12, Issue 4, 265-280, 16p.

eParticipation Call for Proposals 2008

The Work Programme for 2008 was adopted on 11th June and a new call for proposals has been launched and is open until 29th August 2008.

3rd DEMO-net PhD Colloquium

The successful DEMO-net PhD Student Colloquium which is organised as an annual event continues. The 2008 DEMO-net PhD colloquium is taking place in conjunction with EGOV'08 in cooperation with the AIS Special Interest Group on eGovernment.

Workshop: Managing e-Participatory knowledge: perspectives, methods and systems for planning

Workshop: Managing e-Participatory knowledge: perspectives, methods and systems for planning - Bari, Italy, July 17-18, 2008

The European e-Democracy Award 2008

In the context of the World eDemocracy Forum 2008, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

Final programme available for the 7th international EGOV conference 2008

 

ECPR 2009 Call for panels and discussants

In the next ECPR General Conference to be held in Potsdam in September 2009 there will be a section on “Internet and Politics” which has been allocated six panels.

Call for papers: dg.o 2009

The dg.o 2009 conference theme “Social Networks: Making Connections between Citizens, Data and Government” focuses on Web 2.0 technology, the emerging Social Web, and social network systems that allow large scale distributed collaboration, information sharing and creation of collective intelligence in government areas.

eGov08: Plenary presentation on "ICT for governance and policy modelling"

The eGov conference 2008 will have a plenary presentation on "ICT for governance and policy modelling" from the European Commission, as well as a workshop discussion at the conference (see the programme). These will be key information sources for the eGovernment researcher community in respect to the upcoming call in FP 7 of the EC.

ICT 2008: Please vote for the two networking sessions on eGovernment and eParticipation

Help to bring back e-government research to the FP 7 by contributing, commenting and voting for the two networking sessions submitted by Jeremy Millard and Maria A. Wimmer

European Parliament's own webTV channel

The EP President, Hans-Gert Pöttering, launched EuroparlTV, the Parliament's own webTV channel. Anyone with Internet access will be able to watch a regularly changing set of programmes based around the life of the Parliament. The aim of EuroparlTV is to bring Parliament closer to European citizens in a modern and creative format.

ICT 2008: Two networking sessions on ICT for governance and policy modeling approved

Help to bring back e-government and e-participation research to the FP 7 by contributing, commenting and voting for the two networking sessions organized by Jeremy Millard and Maria A. Wimmer

DEMO-net portal evaluation survey is online now - Please help us with your contribution!

With this survey, we kindly ask you to evaluate the added value, usefulness, usability and appeal content, structure and interactive functionalities provided in DEMO-net's eParticipation Virtual Resource Center (VRC).

DEMO-net Newsletter - September 2008

In this newsletter, we provide you with the latest updates on eParticipation events and publications.

Call for Papers: E-Participation and E-Citizenship Minitrack at HICCS 2009

The most important stakeholder in e-Government and e-Democracy systems is the citizen. This minitrack focuses on e-Participation, the involvement of citizens in the development, use, and evaluation of e-Government and e-Democracy systems. According to the European Commission, e-Participation involves areas such as e-consultation, e-legislation, e-petition and e-deliberation.

Call for Papers: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans

Special Issue on eParticipation in Southern Europe and the Balkans: Issues of democracy and participation via electronic media

Call for Papers: 7th Eastern European e|Gov Days,

eGovernment & eBusiness Ecosystem & eJustice

Call for Papers on eParticipation: European Journal of ePractice

The European Journal of ePractice invites contributions of both an empirical and theoretical nature, from a policy and/or technical perspective, and/or which address current issues or look into the medium term of mass collaboration and th e use of Web 2.0 and even Web 3.0 tools.

The eParticipation Network (ePN) is now established!

On 9th October 2008, the eParticipation Network has been officially established in order to create a leading forum for eParticipation research and practice.

Call for Papers: IST-Africa 2009

Papers should focus on a research or eAdoption topic on which a case study, initial or final results can be published. General project descriptions are not appropriate. All papers must highlight the level of innovation and actual or expected impact.

Call for Papers: First international conference on eParticipation (ePart) 2009

The conference specifically provides a ground for researchers of distinct disciplines to come together and discuss advances of eParticipation research from distinct disciplinary angles.

Launch of the Virtual Training Centre

The pilot of the Virtual Training Centre (VTC) has been launched

The DEMO-net November Newsletter is out!

The DEMO-net newsletter keeping you informed with latest developments in the eParticipation domain and the DEMO-net project has been published.

European Journal of ePractice - Special Issue on eParticipation

Just over 3 weeks to send your eParticipation Article to the ePractice Journal

Call for Papers: IEEE Intelligent Systems: Special Issue on Transforming E-government and E-participation

September/October 2009

Council of Europe fulfills its mandate on eDemocracy

The meetings of the Council of Europe’s “Ad hoc Committee on E-Democracy” (CAHDE) are now closed.

Call for Authors: Beyond e-Government Measuring Performance: A Global Perspective

The Public Technology Institute (PTI) based in Washington, DC. and ITEMs International, based in Paris, will publish a new book in its highly successful “Global Perspective” Series, Beyond e-Government Measuring Performance: A Global Perspective to be published late 2009

Call for Papers: eChallenges e-2009

eChallenges e-2009 Conference and Exhibition October 2009, Istanbul, Turkey Call for Papers Deadline - 27 February

Call for papers: ECPR 2009 Section on Internet and Politics

There is a section on "Internet and Politics" at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research which will be held in Potsdam from 10-12 September 2009.

Submission System now open for ePart 2009

The online submission system for the first international ePart conference has now been opened.

Registration open for European eParticipation Day

The European Commission, DG Information Society and Media - ICT for Government and Public Services - is organizing an eParticipation Day, which will be held in Brussels on Wednesday 4th March.

Extension of Deadline for submitting to the 1st International eParticipation conference (ePart) 2009

Call for papers - extension of deadline till 15th March 2009

Discussing European eParticipation

Online Discussion on the European eParticipation (02-13/03/2009)

CfP - Special Issue on "Democracy, participation and public deliberation"

Special Issue of the Italian Journal "Partecipazione e conflitto"devoted to "Democracy, participation and public deliberation". This issue of "Partecipazione e Conflitto" aims to collect empirical contributions focused on results, opportunities and problems emerging from different deliberative practices (i.e. managed by political institutions or enacted by the civil society), as well as the interactions between different political actors and dimensions of deliberation, informal and institutional, micro and macro, online and offline. Editors: Anna Carola Freschi (anna.freschi@unibg.it) and Luca Raffini (luca.raffini@unibg.it) University of Bergamo Article (in .rtf or .pdf) can be submitted in Italian, English, French and Spanish. Deadline: 1/10/2009. See below more information about this call and the Journal.

Call for Papers: EVOTE2010

The 4th International Conference on Electronic Voting 2010, 2010-07-21 to 2010-07-23 in Bregenz, Austria

Call for Papers: Workshop e-Democracy: Pro-active Governance and eParticipation

within the framework of the International Symposium on Legal Information Systems 2010, University of Salzburg, 25.–27.2.2010

Call for Contributions Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010)

OD2010 aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners from a wide range of academic and applied backgrounds to provide a unique opportunity to better understand the notion of deliberation in a virtual environment and to discuss specific advances in online deliberation from a number of different disciplinary perspectives.

Call for applications: 2010 iGov Research Institute

2010 iGov Research Institute July 18-25, 2010 The Hague & Delft, The Netherlands

Call for papers: 2nd international conference on eParticipation

International conference on eParticipation (ePart) 2010 - the second international conference dedicated to eParticipation research. The conference will be held at Lausanne (Switzerland) on 29 August - 2 September 2010 in parallel to and co-located with the e-government conference 2010 organised by the IFIP WG 8.5. ePart 2010 is sponsored by IFIP WG 8.5.

EVOTE 2010 call for papers extended

 

ePart 2010: extension of submission deadline till 3rd March 2010

The 2nd International conference on eParticipation (ePart) 2010 29 August – 2 September 2010; Lausanne, Switzerland (co-organised with EGOV 2010)

Final conference of the VoiceS project

At the conference, the results of the VoiceS project will be presented and the chances and challenges of eParticipation be debated by distinguished experts.