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EDem 2008 E-Democracy Conference Danube University Krems, Austria 29-30 September 2008 www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem We would like to invite you, your students, and readers to attend the EDem 2008 Conference to be held at the Danube University in Krems 29-30 September 2008. Please forward / post this invitation as you think appropriate! Keynote Speakers: *Steven Clift (E-Democracy.org, USA) *Ann Macintosh (Professor Digital Governance, University of Leeds, UK) *Jeremy Millard (Danish Insitute of Technology, DK) *Peter Parycek (Head of the Centre for E-Government, Danube University Krems, AT) *Matt Poelmans (Director Burgerlink, NL) Workshops: *Making International Recommendations on e-Democracy - Thomas Buchsbaum (CAHDE) *Case Studies and State of the Art in eParticipation - Ann Macintosh and Jeremy Millard *MOMENTUM - Daniel van Lerberge (European Center of Political Technologies, POLITECH Institute, B ) *Open Source and e-Democracy - Lasse Berntzen (Vestfold University College, NOR) Conference Aims: *To what extent can E-Democracy support and enrich our democracy? *What and where are the interfaces, what methods can be used to integrate E-participation in present politics public administration processes? *How can we ensure that the greatest number of people are reached and are able to use the means of participation? *How can the modern media support political education? *How can the Internet increase participation in political discussion? *What are the limitations and the risks of E-Democracy? The EDem2008 conference presents the opportunity to look into these questions and discuss the answers. During the conference experiences will be collected, examples good and bad practice analysed, the State-of-the-Art and future scenarios will be presented and discussed. More information about the conference, programme and registration: www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem I look forward to meeting yoiu there! Noella Edelmann Noella Edelmann BA, MSc, MAS E-Democracy 2008 Conference www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem Academic Staff Research Course Director Executive MBA in ICT Centre for E-Government Danube University Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30, 3500 Krems Austria Tel.: +43 2732 893 2303 http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/egov E-Mail: <email obscured>
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Steven Clift wrote:
>In addition to speaking, I hope to use this as an opportunity to have an
informal conversation with researchers interested helping design a proposal for
a multi-city European comparative research project on *citizen-based* local
e-democracy projects (including a mix of community and neighbourhood Issue
Forums with E-Democracy.Org).
Steven, are you still planning to get together with interested researchers at
this conference? If so, do you have any idea which day / what sort of time? I'm
just making my travel plans, and wondering whether I need to leave time before
or after the main agenda to fit this in.
Simon Smith
Simon Smith wrote: > Steven Clift wrote: >> In addition to speaking, I hope to use this as an opportunity to have an > informal conversation with researchers interested helping design a proposal for > a multi-city European comparative research project on *citizen-based* local > e-democracy projects (including a mix of community and neighbourhood Issue > Forums with E-Democracy.Org). > Nothing outside of the context of their regular schedule. I've been too swamped to organize anything special ... but look forward to connecting. Tell me about your research interests. Steve > Steven, are you still planning to get together with interested researchers at this conference? If so, do you have any idea which day / what sort of time? I'm just making my travel plans, and wondering whether I need to leave time before or after the main agenda to fit this in. > > Simon Smith > > ----------------------------------------- > Group home for E-Democracy and E-Government Researchers Network: > http://groups.dowire.org/groups/research > > Replies go to members of E-Democracy and E-Government Researchers Network with all posts on this topic here: > http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/7zKBrXPgHqtUyccUXBhFdU > > For digest version or to leave E-Democracy and E-Government Researchers Network, > email <email obscured> > with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. > > E-Democracy and E-Government Researchers Network is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
> Tell me about your research interests. Principally, I'm involved with the European eParticipation study, which aims to provide an overall view of where Europe currently stands regarding eParticipation and on this basis to provide recommendations for future initiatives. But this work is mainly focused at the European and trans-national level. See: www.european-eparticipation.eu I've also done some case study work on local issues discusion forums, see a presentation I gave in March: http://www.elost.org/smith.pdf I have a paper based on this under review at present. I'd be very interested in doing more work focusing on the local scale, especially cross-national comparisons, so your suggestion sounded interesting. Simon