E-Government: Towards Electronic Democracy: International Conference, TCGOV 2005, Bolzano, Italy, March 2-4, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (3416))

The TCGOV 2005 international conference on e-government was held at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano during March 2-4, 2005. The conference was initiated by the working group "Towards Electronic Democracy" (TED) of the European Science Foundation and was jointly organized by the Free University ofBozen-Bolzano, theMunicipalityofBozen-Bolzano, theTEDWorkingGroup, and the IFIP Working Group 8.5. The conference addressed a large spectrum of issues that are relevant and have to be investigated for a successful transition from the traditional form of government to a new form known as e-government. The main focus was on the following topics: - improving citizen participation and policy making (e-democracy) - government application integration - semantic Web technologies for e-government - security aspects for e-government services Two sessions were dedicated to e-democracy, an emerging area within- government that seeks to enhance democratic processes and provide increased opportunities for individuals and communities to be involved in governmental decisions. Thecontributionsofthesetwosessionscovermorefundamentalresults and insights as well as experiences from di?erent countries. Another focus was on government application integration and the use of - mantic Web technologies, which are important technical aspects on the agenda of e-government research. Di?erent architectures for the integration and orch- tration of distributed services and processes were presented along with two case studies. Three papers about Semantic Web technologies discussed the use of ontologies in e-government Using Weblogs To Support Local Democracy / Ann Macintosh, Andy Mckay-hubbard And Danae Shell -- Web-based Tools For Policy Evaluation / Lasse Berntzen And Marte Winsvold -- Can Online Map-based Applications Improve Citizen Participation? / Renate Steinmann, Alenka Krek And Thomas Blaschke -- Interactive Tools For E-democracy : Examples From Switzerland / Jean-loup Chappelet And Pierre Kilchenmann -- Public Budget Dialogue -- An Innovative Approach To E-participation / Stefanie Roeder, Annika Poppenborg, Susanne Michaelis, Oliver Marker And Stefan Rene Salz -- Enhancing E-democracy Via Fiscal Transparency : A Discussion Based On China's Experience / Ling Lan -- Third Way E-government : The Case For Local Devolution / Ailsa Kolsaker -- Urban Versus Regional Divide : Comparing And Classifying Digital Divide / Enrico Ferro, Marco Cantamessa And Emilio Paolucci -- E-citizen : Why Waiting For The Governments? / Armando Rech Filho -- A Zero Knowledge Proof For Subset Selection From A Family Of Sets With Applications To Multiparty/multicandidate Electronic Elections / Tassos Dimitriou And Dimitris Foteinakis -- A Protocol For Anonymous And Accurate E-polling / Danilo Bruschi, Igor Nai Fovino And Andrea Lanzi -- Model Driven Security For Inter-organizational Workflows In E-government / Ruth Breu, Michael Hafner, Barbara Weber And Andrea Novak -- E-government : A Legislative Ontology For The 'siap' Parliamentary Management System / Carmen Costilla, Juan P. Palacios, Jose Cremades And Jorge Vila -- No (e- )democracy Without (e- )knowledge / Giovanni M. Sacco -- Towards A Semantically-driven Software Engineering Environment For Egovernment / Dimitris Apostolou, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Tomas Pariente Lobo And Barbara Thoenssen -- Towards Requirements For A Reference Model For Process Orchestration In E-government / Jeffrey Gortmaker, Marijn Janssen And Rene W. Wagenaar -- A Distributed Architecture For Supporting E-government Cooperative Processes / Mariangela Contenti, Massimo Mecella, Alessandro Termini And Roberto Baldoni -- Egovernment Service Marketplace : Architecture And Implementation / Elena Mugellini, Maria Chiara Pettenati, Omar Abou Khaled And Franco Pirri -- Towards Building E-government On The Grid / Ying Li, Minglu Li And Yue Chen -- Applying The Iso Rm-odp Standard In E-government / B. Meneklis, A. Kaliontzoglou, D. Polemi And C. Douligeris -- Quixote : Supporting Group Decisions Through The Web / J.a. Rubio, D. Rios Insua, Y. Rios And E. Fernandez -- Unicap : Efficient Decision Support For Academic Resource And Capacity Management / Svetlana Vinnik And Marc H. Scholl -- A Methodology Framework For Calculating The Cost Of E-government Services / Elias A. Hadzilias -- Good Practice In E-government : Management Over Methods? / Lee Anthony Eddowes -- Participatory Budget Formation Through The Web / J. Rios, D. Rios Insua, E. Fernandez And J.a. Rivero -- On The Transition To An Open Source Solution For Desktop Office Automation / Bruno Rossi, Barbara Russo, Paolo Zuliani And Giancarlo Succi -- Public Eprocurement In Action : Policies, Practices And Technologies / Catherine Hardy And Susan P. Williams -- An Integrated Approach In Healthcare E-procurement : The Case-study Of The Asl Of Viterbo / Tommaso Federici. Michael Bohlen ... [et Al.], Eds. Includes Bibliographic References And Index. Front Matter....Pages - Using Weblogs to Support Local Democracy....Pages 1-12 Web-Based Tools for Policy Evaluation....Pages 13-24 Can Online Map-Based Applications Improve Citizen Participation?....Pages 25-35 Interactive Tools for e-Democracy: Examples from Switzerland....Pages 36-47 “Public Budget Dialogue” – An Innovative Approach to E-Participation....Pages 48-56 Enhancing e-Democracy Via Fiscal Transparency: A Discussion Based on China’s Experience....Pages 57-69 Third Way e-Government: The Case for Local Devolution....Pages 70-80 “Urban Versus Regional Divide: Comparing and Classifying Digital Divide”....Pages 81-90 e-Citizen: Why Waiting for the Governments?....Pages 91-99 A Zero Knowledge Proof for Subset Selection from a Family of Sets with Applications to Multiparty/Multicandidate Electronic Elections....Pages 100-111 A Protocol for Anonymous and Accurate E-Polling....Pages 112-121 Model Driven Security for Inter-organizational Workflows in e-Government....Pages 122-133 e-Government: A Legislative Ontology for the ‘ SIAP ’ Parliamentary Management System....Pages 134-146 No (e-)Democracy Without (e-)Knowledge....Pages 147-156 Towards a Semantically-Driven Software Engineering Environment for eGovernment....Pages 157-168 Towards Requirements for a Reference Model for Process Orchestration in e-Government....Pages 169-180 A Distributed Architecture for Supporting e- Government Cooperative Processes....Pages 181-192 eGovernment Service Marketplace: Architecture and Implementation....Pages 193-204 Towards Building E-Government on the Grid....Pages 205-212 Applying the ISO RM-ODP Standard in E-Government....Pages 213-224 Quixote: Supporting Group Decisions Through the Web....Pages 225-234 UNICAP: Efficient Decision Support for Academic Resource and Capacity Management....Pages 235-246 A Methodology Framework for Calculating the Cost of e-Government Services....Pages 247-256 Good Practice in e-Government: Management over Methods?....Pages 257-267 Participatory Budget Formation Through the Web....Pages 268-276 On the Transition to an Open Source Solution for Desktop Office Automation....Pages 277-285 Public eProcurement in Action: Policies, Practices and Technologies....Pages 286-297 An Integrated Approach in Healthcare e-Procurement: The Case-Study of the ASL of Viterbo....Pages 298-309 Back Matter....Pages -