Aim

The European Science Foundation (ESF) has established the program TOWARDS ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY (TED) with the overall objectives:

• To discuss and evaluate how advances of interactive decision-analytic tools might help develop e-Democracy.
• To develop e-Government systems which involve their citizens more fully in the public decision making process.

As part of this program, a conference on interdisciplinary methods and techniques related to the TED program is organized. The conference aims at addressing 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.

The conference is jointly organized by:

• University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Institute for Informations Systems IWI
• University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen

and supported by:

• European Science foundation, TED working group
• Ecademy (the National Network of Excellence of the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences for E-Business and E-Government)

News

• Change of location and date: The organizers decided to have the conference as a preconference to the 10th International Conference on Business Information Systems on April 24, 2007 in Poznan, Poland.
• Due to scheduling conflicts with other conferences we postponed the conference date. The new date is April, 2007.
• Call for Papers:
  The new deadline for the submission of research papers is January 5, 2007.