Next generation society : technological and legal issues : Third International Conference, E-Democracy 2009, Athens, Greece, September 23-25, 2009 : revised selected papers

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International ICST Conference, e-Democracy 2009, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2009. The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed. The papers are organized in topical sections on politics - legislation - regulatory framework I; enhancing quality of life through e-services; politics - legislation - regulatory framework II supporting democracy through e-services; identity management, privacy and trust; securitiy, attacks and crime; e-government & local e-government; education and training; collaboration, social networking, blogs; pervasive, ubiquitous, and intelligent computing. Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 A Study on the Lack of Enforcement of Data Protection Acts....Pages 3-12 The Impact of the Web and Political Balance to e-Democracy....Pages 13-28 Using Structured e-Forum to Support the Legislation Formation Process....Pages 29-40 Front Matter....Pages 41-41 From the Digital Divide to Digital Inequality: A Secondary Research in the European Union....Pages 43-54 Inkjet-Printed Paper-Based RFID and Nanotechnology-Based Ultrasensitive Sensors: The “Green” Ultimate Solution for an Ever Improving Life Quality and Safety?....Pages 55-63 Examining Adoption of e-Procurement in Public Sector Using the Perceived Characteristics of Innovating: Indonesian Perspective....Pages 64-75 Front Matter....Pages 77-77 Studying the Interaction of the Epistemology in e-Government, Organization Studies and Information Systems....Pages 79-86 Front Matter....Pages 87-87 e-Campaigning: The Present and Future....Pages 89-98 e-Democracy: The Political Culture of Tomorrow’s Citizens....Pages 99-107 Parademo: e-Democracy Based on a Delegated Expert Selection Process in a Small-World Network....Pages 108-117 Telep@b Project: Towards a Model for eParticipation and a Case Study in Participatory Budgeting....Pages 118-127 Stakeholder e-Participation in Local Planning: The Camargue Park Case....Pages 128-137 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Core Structure Elements Architectures to Facilitate Construction and Secure Interconnection of Mobile Services Frameworks and Advanced IAM Systems....Pages 141-150 Economics of Personal Data Management: Fair Personal Information Trades....Pages 151-160 Evaluating Common Privacy Vulnerabilities in Internet Service Providers....Pages 161-170 Intellectual Property Rights Protection in Peer to Peer Networks....Pages 171-178 Front Matter....Pages 179-179 Information Assurance and Forensic Readiness....Pages 181-188 An Ontology-Driven antiSPIT Architecture....Pages 189-198 Can Formalism Alone Provide an Answer to the Quest of a Viable Definition of Trust in the WWW Society?....Pages 199-208 Biological Aspects of Computer Virology....Pages 209-219 Front Matter....Pages 179-179 Information Systems Security Management: A Review and a Classification of the ISO Standards....Pages 220-235 Web Server Security on Open Source Environments....Pages 236-247 Front Matter....Pages 249-249 e-Government Readiness, Strategy and Two Different User Groups - in Austria....Pages 251-258 On e-Government Project Development in Balmeda....Pages 259-269 A Prototype System for Electronic Data Interchange among Registrar’s Offices of Different States....Pages 270-278 e-Government for Development Information Exchange (DIE): Zambia....Pages 279-292 Front Matter....Pages 293-293 Semantic e-Learning: Next Generation of e-Learning?....Pages 295-308 Supporting Rural Citizens’ Access to Knowledge: One More Aspect of e-Democracy....Pages 309-319 Evaluating a Greek National Action on Parents’ Training on ICT and Internet Safety....Pages 320-328 Evaluating a Greek National Action on Students’ Training on ICT and Programming Competences....Pages 329-338 Front Matter....Pages 339-339 OPSIS: An Open, Preventive and Scalable Migration Information System....Pages 341-350 Online Communities: The Case of Immigrants in Greece....Pages 351-359 From Online to Ubiquitous Cities: The Technical Transformation of Virtual Communities....Pages 360-372 A New Paradigm for Secure Social Lending....Pages 373-385 Techno Generation: Social Networking amongst Youth in South Africa....Pages 386-396 Combining Immersive Virtual Worlds and Virtual Learning Environments into an Integrated System for Hosting and Supporting Virtual Conferences....Pages 397-407 Front Matter....Pages 409-409 Social Network Analysis and Its Applications in Wireless Sensor and Vehicular Networks....Pages 411-420 SWEB: An Advanced Mobile Residence Certificate Service....Pages 421-430 p-Democracy a Pervasive Majority Rule....Pages 431-440 Group Monitoring in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks....Pages 441-451 Back Matter....Pages - Recent developments in information and communication technology (ICT) have paved the way for a world of advanced communication, intelligent information processing and ubiquitous access to information and services. The ability to work, communicate, interact, conduct business, and enjoy digital entertainment virtually anywhere is r- idly becoming commonplace due to a multitude of small devices, ranging from mobile phones and PDAs to RFID tags and wearable computers. The increasing number of connected devices and the proliferation of networks provide no indication of a sl- down in this tendency. On the negative side, misuse of this same technology entails serious risks in various aspects, such as privacy violations, advanced electronic crime, cyber terrorism, and even enlargement of the digital divide. In extreme cases it may even threaten basic principles and human rights. The aforementioned issues raise an important question: Is our society ready to adopt the technological advances in ubiq- tous networking, next-generation Internet, and pervasive computing? To what extent will it manage to evolve promptly and efficiently to a next-generation society, ado- ing the forthcoming ICT challenges? The Third International ICST Conference on e-Democracy held in Athens, Greece during September 23–25, 2009 focused on the above issues. Through a compreh- sive list of thematic areas under the title “Next-Generation Society: Technological and Legal issues,” the 2009 conference provided comprehensive reports and stimulated discussions on the technological, ethical, legal, and political challenges ahead of us.