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C A L L   F O R   P A R T I C I P A T I O N :
ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY: THE CHALLENGE AHEAD
TED Conference on e-Government

  March 2-4, 2005 Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Jointly organized by:

• European Science Foundation, TED working group
• Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
• City of Bozen-Bolzano
• IFIP WG 8.5 - Information Systems in Public Administration

SCOPE
TCGOV-2005 will address 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 conference has a strong interdisciplinary character and aims to bring together people from different sectors, including researchers, technology providers, administrative staff, and politicians.

ADVANCED PROGRAM (http://www.inf.unibz.it/tcgov2005/programme.html)

• 10 contributed technical sessions featuring 28 regular papers
• 1 poster session with 18 poster presentations
• 3 keynote presentations by Roland Traunmueller (University of Linz),  David Basin (ETH Zurich and Zurich Information Security Center), and  Thanassis Chrissafis, European Commission, DG Information Society,  Unit E-Government
• SIPPS - Secure Information Processing in the Public Sector  (Clustering Event organized by eMayor - an EU 6FP IST STREP project)
• 2nd eBZ Workshop on e-Government,  (organized by the Municipality and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)

MAIN TOPICS AND SESSIONS
1. E-Democracy: Improving citizen participation and policy making
2. E-Democracy: Experiences from different countries
3. Political and societal implications
4. Security for e-government services
5. Semantic web technologies for e-government
6. Architectures for government application integration
7. Case studies for government application integration
8. Decision support systems
9. Managerial and financial aspects of e-government projects
10. E-Procurement

REGISTRATION (http://www.inf.unibz.it/tcgov2005/registration.html) The conference fee covers the particpation in regular sessions, one copy of the proceedings, welcome reception, one ticket for the conference dinner, and three lunches.

Conference Fees:  

	Regular participants	Students
Early (until January 14, 2005):	250 EUR	150 EUR
Late (until February 11, 2005):	300 EUR	200 EUR
On-site (after February 11, 2005):	350 EUR	250 EUR

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
The TCGOV-2005 conference proceedings are published in the Springer series LNCS and will, in parallel to the printed book, be published online at: http://www.springerlink.com

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Michael Böhlen, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
(boehlen@inf.unibz.it)

Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
(gamper@inf.unibz.it)

Maria Wimmer, University of Linz, Austria
(wimmer@ifs.uni-linz.ac.at)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Antonio Albano, University of Pisa, Italy
Elisa Bertino, University of Milano, Italy
Jean-Loup Chappelet, Graduate School of Public Administration Lausanne, Switzerland
Klaus Dittrich, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Mario Fedrizzi, University of Trento, Italy
Gerhard Friedrich, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Ake Groenlund, Oerebro University, Sweden
Pim Hengeveld, Deloitte & Touche, The Netherlands
Peter Kawalek, University of Manchester, UK
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Mario Jorge Leitao, University of Porto, Portugal
Alfons Kemper, Technical Univesity of Munich, Germany
Miriam Lips, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Ann Macintosh, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Peter Mambrey, Fraunhofer-FIT, St. Augustin, Germany
Gregoris Mentzas,National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Carl Erik Moe, Agder University College, Norway
Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany
Aljosa Pasic, Atos Origin, Madrid, Spain
Vassilios Peristeras, Greek National Center for Public Administration, Thessaloniki, Greece
Wolfgang Polasek, University of Basel, Switzerland, and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Nineta Polemi, Expertnet, Greece
Reinhard Riedl, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Ahti Saarenpaeae, University of Lapland, Finland
Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London, United Kingdom
Maddalena Sorrentino, University of Milano, Italy
Pietro Torasso, University of Torino, Italy
Roland Traunmueller, University of Linz, Austria