Electronic Democracy: achievements and challenges

Between November 21st and 25th, 2007, the European Science Foundation ESF - setting science agendas for Europe will hold a research conference on Electronic Democracy: achievements and challenges at Vadstena (Sweden).

This conference will be chaired by Professor Herbert Kubicek of the Institut für Informationsmanagement Bremen (ifib), a partner in the evoice project.

The central aim of the preliminary programme is Electronic Democracy or eDemocracy and how to identify theoretical and methodological challenges for the future research agenda by combining a top-down and a bottom-up approach.

Top-down means providing general inputs from a theoretical or methodological point of view. Bottom-up means to assess and reflect actual research in different subfields in the area of eDemocracy:

• eInformation;
• eConsultation and eDeliberation;
• eCommunities and eMovements;
• eCampaigning and eActivism;
• ePetitioning;
• eVoting.

For more information and registration, please here.

The European Science Foundation (75 organisations from 30 European countries) and located at Strasbourg (F), promotes high quality science at a European level. It acts as a catalyst for the development of science by bringing together leading scientists and funding agencies to debate, plan and implement pan-European initiatives.

Since its establishment in 1974, ESF has co-ordinated a wide range of pan-European scientific initiatives in 10 research areas.

evoice: international European partnership

evoice is a European co-operation between:

• the Municipality of Dantumadeel (NL),
  lead partner;
• the Municipalities of Uddevalla, Ale and Härryda with the support of Västra Götalandregionen (S);
• Norfolk County (UK);
• Intercommunale Leiedal, district Kortrijk (B);
• the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (FRG);
• the Municipality of Groningen (NL).