E-POWER

The project aims at testing a critical tool that will represent a significant value within the emerging services over the Internet. The project is designed to realise an Internet based voting service that will provide users with a tool for expressing their opinion. This project will address the issues of trust and confidence over the Internet by designing, implementing, and testing a secure service. In fact, the voting system relies upon a PKI for its correct operation and will enable demonstrating parties to use digital signature technology and smart cards for voting operations. The proposed voting system will be useful within a range of voting options from polls to different surveys. Studies on the impact of the testing activities will be carried out addressing issues such as users returns on polling activities of geographically distributed organisations. The proposal aims at testing a critical tool that will represent a significant value within the emerging services over the Internet. The project is designed to realise an Internet based voting service that will provide users with a tool for expressing their opinion. This project will address the issues of trust and confidence over the Internet by designing, implementing, and testing a secure service. In fact, the voting system relies upon a PKI for its correct operation and will enable demonstrating parties to use digital signature technology and smart cards for voting operations. The proposed voting system will be useful within a range of voting options from polls to different surveys. Studies on the impact of the testing activities will be carried out addressing issues such as users returns on polling activities of geographically distributed organisations.

<p>The E-POWER project has developed a method and supporting tools that enable citizens and businesses to cope with the problem of complexity in legislation. The E-POWER approach results in applications that increase quality and accessibility of legislation and business rules. The project has defined a formal description of pension regulations in Belgium and the Netherlands. The E-POWER method increases adaptivity demanded by changes in legislation or business rules in Europe, consequently it reduces maintenance costs of normative information systems. The application of the method also reduces the time to market of implementation of new legislation/business rules.</p>

• Ontology
• Semantic web

• Information Provision
• Polling