Call for Participation e-Democracy 2015
Information and communication technologies move fast; faster than society, faster than governments, faster than the law. Connectivity is already impressive, but the near future brings about the interconnection of everything, via the Internet of Things. It also brings fundamental changes to our computing paradigm, with cloud computing gaining momentum and being expected to become the prevalent computing paradigm in the years to come. Increasingly more data are being collected, about almost everything one can imagine; and they remain there, in cyberspace, forever, sometimes even resisting efforts to delete them. These data are so attractive that a new science, going by the name “big data” has already emerged. All these developments constitute in most cases an improvement in our everyday lives, but sometimes infringe our rights as citizens. The challenge, therefore, is to safeguard citizen rights in the face of a new era, landmarked by new computing paradigms.
This is the theme of the 6th occasion of the International Conference on e-Democracy that will be held in Athens, the cradle of democracy, on 10-11 December 2015. The conference is organized by the Scientific Council for the Information Society, in co-operation with the Hellenic Data Protection Authority and a number of universities. It is intended, similarly to previous occasions, to provide a forum for presenting and debating the latest developments in the field, from a technical, political, and legal point of view.
The Technical Program Committee and the Organizing Committee have put together an exciting program featuring
• 3 keynote speeches
• 4 sessions with 13 refereed research papers
• 3 sessions with EU R&D project presentations
• 2 sessions with case studies and demos
• 1 session on the industry view
• 1 session on eIDAS European legislation and CEF’s supporting DSI
• 1 session presenting results of the eSENS and STORK2.0 projects
• 1 session E-Voting vs E-Trust: A test bed for e-Democracy in a world in crisis workshop on e-voting
More registration information, including classes and dates can be found at the registration page.
Venue and accommodation information can be found here.
Looking forward to seeing you in Athens!
Sokratis K. Katsikas, Center for Cyber and Information Security, Norway, TPC chair
Alexander B. Sideridis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece, General Chair
