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DEMO-net Newsletter - June 2008

News Report from DEMO-net: The eParticipation Network

June 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/.

Events Coming Up

Joint International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation - DEMO-net Session on e-Participation: A GDN perspective, June 17-20, 2008, in Coimbra, Portugal

This session focuses on contributions aim at designing tools and methodologies based on decision analysis principles to support participatory decision processes in political issues. This session will touch from a GDN perspective some of the key issues in e-participation: e-voting, e-participatory budgeting, facilitating participation with simpler systems and a comparison of participatory and e-participatory processes.
Organiser: Jesus Rios, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark

IDEME ’08 - 2nd international conference about electronisation of public administration, June 18-19, 2008, in Bratislava, Slovakia

A conference and workshop on informatization of public administration will be held by the Technical University of Košice

3rd DEMO-net PhD Colloquium on eGovernment and eParticipation, August 31 - September 1, 2008 in Torino, Italy

The 2008 DEMO-net PhD colloquium is taking place in conjunction with EGOV'08 in cooperation with the AIS Special Interest Group on eGovernment. Papers will be reviewed and discussed by other PhD students and senior researchers in the eParticipation field. Certain tutorials will also take place on eParticipation aspects by senior DEMO-net researchers.
Program Chairs: Åke Grönlund from Örebro University, Kim V. Andersen from Copenhagen Business School.
Doctoral Consortium: August 31 - September 1, 2008

Special Track: eGovernment and eParticipation at the crossroad in the Third International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2008), November 13-16, 2008, University of East London, London, UK

Special Track: eGovernment and eParticipation at the crossroad: how social software, SOAs and semantic technologies transform the citizen-state interaction
Track Chairs: Vassilios Peristeras, National University of Ireland Galway, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland and Konstantinos Tarabanis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Selected papers from this track will be considered for publication in IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on Transforming E-government and E-participation.
Full Paper - July 01, 2008
Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection - August 15, 2008
Conference Dates: November 13-16, 2008

Recent Past Events

SLAECE 2008 - International Workshop on Social and Legal Aspects under Emerging Computing Environments June 8-13, 2008, in Athens, Greece

Mr. Kalampokis E. (University of Macedonia) presented the paper “A Domain Model for eParticipation” by Kalampokis E., Tambouris E. and Tarabanis K. in this International workshop

Presentation in the 9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research on 18-21 May, 2008, in Montreal, Canada

Dr. Tambouris (University of Macedonia) presented the short paper (poster) “Identifying Research Themes and Methods in eElectioneering” by Kampitaki D., Tambouris E. and Tarabanis K.

DEMO-net research workshop – Empowerment and e-Participation in Civil Society: Local, National and International Implications, May 9-10th 2008, in Orebro University, Sweden

The research workshop was organized by DEMO-net and Örebro University, in cooperation with the Civil Society and New Forms of Governance in Europe (CINEFOGO) conference “Normative Implications of New Forms of Participation for Democratic Policy Processes”.

Panel discussion – E-Participation from the perspective of Government Executives/SIG of DEMO-net, Eastern European eGov Days 2008, 24th April 2008, in Prague, Czech Republic

The chair of the panel was Maria A. Wimmer from University of Koblenz, Germany. The panel consisted of: Thomas Buchsbaum CAHDE/Council of Europe, John Shaddock Local Government Y&H, UK, Asta Thorleifsdottir City of Reykjavik, Island, David Broster European Commission, DG INFSO, Miroslav Hruby, Office for personal data protection, Czech Republic.

Recent Publications

Aichholzer, G. and Allhutter D., Evaluation Perspectives and Key Criteria in eParticipation, Proceedings of 6th Eastern European eGovernment Days, April 23-25, 2008, Prague, Czech republic
Aichholzer, G., Allhutter, D., Freschi, A.C., Lippa, B., Macintosh, A., Westholm, H. 2008, eParticipation Evaluation and Impact, DEMO-net – The eParticipation Network, Deliverable D13.3, Bremen
Aichholzer, G., Buckner, K., Christiansen, E., Cruickshank, P., Davarinos, K., Eleftheriou, E., Gkarafli, M., Lippa, B., Panopoulou, E., Rose, J., Sæbø, Ø., Tambouris, E., Tarabanis, K., Taylor-Smith, E., Westholm, H., Winkler, R., 2008, Development methods and support environments to build eParticipation tools, DEMO-net – The eParticipation Network, Deliverable D13.1, University of Macedonia and Austrian Academy of Sciences, Thessaloniki and Vienna (http://www.demo-net.org/demo/management/delivphase2/deliv-commission/d13-1/view ).
Buckner, K and Cruickshank, P “Social Network Analysis as a Tool to Evaluate the Effectiveness of EC Funded Networks of Excellence: The Case of DEMO-net” Proceedings of the 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-41), 10 pages, CD-ROM, IEEE Computer Society, January 2008.
Dalakiouridou, E., Tambouris, E. and Tarabanis, K., eParticipation in the European Institutions: An Overview, Proceedings of 6th Eastern European eGovernment Days, April 23-25, 2008, Prague, Czech republic
Dzuppa, M., Skokan, M., Krsak, B., eParticipation as an important tool in political decision-making – Slovak case.
Gkarafli, S., Tambouris, E. and Tarabanis, K., eParticipation and Web 2.0, Proceedings of 6th Eastern European eGovernment Days, April 23-25, 2008, Prague, Czech republic
Lippa, B., Rios, J., Rose, J., Technology Support for Participatory Budgeting, Technical Report, 2008
Rose, J. and Ø. Sæbø. Establishing Political Deliberation Systems: Key Problems, European Conference on Information Systems, Galway, Ireland, 2008
Rose, J. (forthcoming). Technology and Government: extending the Double Dance of Agency. Three perspectives on e-government: technology & infrastructure, politics & organization, communication & interaction. A. M. Kanstrup, T. Nyvang and E. M. Sørensen, electronic book.
Sæbø, Ø., J. Rose, et al. (forthcoming). "The shape of eParticipation: characterizing an emerging research area." Government Information Quarterly.
Torpe, L. (2008). Local political deliberations on the Net. Three perspectives on e-government: technology & infrastructure, politics & organization, communication & interaction. A. M. Kanstrup, T. Nyvang and E. M. Sørensen, electronic book.
Zálišová I.,Thorleifsdottir A., Bejdák R., Príklad participace obcanu na Islandu (Example of participation of citizens in Island) - in government magazine Verejná Správa no 7/2008, MVCR, ISSN 1213-6581.

Contact Information
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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