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DEMO-net Newsletter - September 2008
September News Report from DEMO-net: The eParticipation Network
September 2008
DEMO-net, the eParticipation Network, is making its communication with all those interested in our work more frequent. In this newsletter, we provide you with the latest updates on eParticipation events and publications. We remind you that the link of the network is http://www.demo-net.org/.
Upcoming DEMO-net Events
Sabrina Scherer will present the paper “Investigating Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) in eDeliberation” by Sabrina Scherer, Maria A. Wimmer, and Christian Schneider.
Events Coming Up
The eInclusion workshop will provide to professionals an opportunity to explore issues and good practice cases of relevance to ICTs and disability. The workshop will explore three themes: e-Accessibility, Designing for employability, Design for living.
The scope of the conference is to bring together researchers, teachers and practitioners active in the area of electronic government from different perspectives and disciplines with a focus on the role played by the information and communication technologies.
The EDem2008 conference presents the opportunity to discuss and answer questions regarding E-Democracy. During the conference experiences will be collected, examples of good and bad practice analysed, and state-of-the-art and future scenarios will be presented and discussed. Keynote speakers: Professor Ann Macintosh, Digital Governance, University of Leeds, UK; Steven Clift, E-Democracy.ORG, USA; Peter Parycek, Danuble University Krems; Matt Poelmans, Citizenlink, The Hague, NL.
Europe and the challenges of e-Governement 2.0 will be the main topic of the World eDemocracy Forum. Debates will be organised to deal with European issues due to the imminent French presidency of the European Union and with Franco-German issues due to the Franco-German ICT year.
eChallenges is supported by the European Commission, and regularly attracts over 650 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world. The goal of e-2008 is to stimulate rapid take-up of Research and Technology Development (RTD) results by industry and in particular SMEs, and help open up the European Research Area (ERA) to the rest of the world. (http://www.echallenges.org/e2008)
Recent Past Events
Maria A. Wimmer (University of Koblenz) presented the paper “The Virtual Resource Centre for eParticipation: Handling the vast Amount of data” by Christian Schneider, Sabrina Scherer, and Maria A. Wimmer.
Efthimios Tambouris (University of Macedonia) presented the paper “eElectioneering: Current Research Trends” by Dimitra Kampitaki, Efthimios Tambouris and Konstantinos Tarabanis.
The 2008 DEMO-net PhD colloquium took place in conjunction with EGOV'08 in cooperation with the AIS Special Interest Group on eGovernment. Papers reviewed and discussed by other PhD students and senior researchers in the eParticipation field and tutorials on eParticipation aspects took place by senior DEMO-net researchers: Åke Grönlund from Örebro University, Kim V. Andersen from Copenhagen Business School, Maria A. Wimmer from University of Koblenz-Landau.
Recent Publications
* Schneider, C, Scherer, S, and Wimmer, MA (2008) “The Virtual Resource Centre for eParticipation: Handling the vast Amount of data”, Electronic Government: Proceedings of ongoing research and projects of EGOV 08. 7th International Conference, EGOV 2008, ed. by Enrico Ferro, H. Jochen Scholl, Maria A. Wimmer, Trauner Druck: Linz. Schriftenreihe Informatik # 27, pp. 257-264 (click here for more details).
* Dimitra Kampitaki, Efthimios Tambouris, and Konstantinos Tarabanis (2008) “eElectioneering: Current Research Trends“, Electronic Government: Proceedings of ongoing research and projects of EGOV 08. 7th International Conference, EGOV 2008, ed. by Enrico Ferro, H. Jochen Scholl, Maria A. Wimmer, Trauner Druck: Linz. Schriftenreihe Informatik # 27, pp. 184-194.
DEMO-net Survey
In the past few months, DEMO-net has migrated its web portal. New and newly structured knowledge assets and possibilities of interaction are now provided in the virtual knowledge portal for different target groups: see www.demo-net.org. To further improve the portal and in order to make it the most valuable access point for eParticipation researchers, practitioners and students, we kindly ask you to provide us your feedback on the new knowledge structure and interaction facilities.
Please go to this link and fill in our evaluation survey. In the first run, the survey will be open till 19th October 2008.
Please go to this link and fill in our evaluation survey. In the first run, the survey will be open till 19th October 2008.
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Contact Information
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Scientific Coordinator Professor Ann Macintosh University of Leeds Tel.: +44 (0) 113 243 1751 E-mail: A.macintosh@leeds.ac.uk |
Dissemination Leader Dr. Efthimios Tambouris University of Macedonia Tel.: +30 2310 464 160 (167) E-mail: tambouris@uom.gr |
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