The workshop aims at bringing together eParticipation researchers and stimulating discussion among representatives of Enterprises, Governments and European Commission on the practical achievements and current challenges of electronic participation research. To achieve the above goal, central part in the workshop is given to real‐life demonstrations and cases analysis, accompanied by additional relevant contributions from other international research projects in the domain.
The Workshop accommodates real‐life demonstrations from eParticipation projects, contributions by
established experts and organisations in the domain.Agenda is as following:
Session A: Overview and Legislation Drafting (14:30 – 16:00)
- Yannis Charalabidis: “An overview of Electronic Participation Projects in the European Union”
- Daniela Tiscornia, Enrico Francesconi: “The DALOS project: Ontology based Legislative Drafting”
- Anna Triantafyllou, George Kountourakis: “Assisting Legislation Drafting through the use of the LEX‐IS Platform”
- Discussion and conclusions Session A
Session B: Legislation Debate at Local Level (16:30 – 18:00)
- Vasilis Koulolias, María Pérez Ortega: “Facilitating European‐wide discussion between elected representatives and civil society on emerging policy issues: The DEMOS@WORK project”
- Rob Peters, George Gionis, Tassos Tsitsanis, Euripidis Loukis, Yannis Charalabidis: “Federated eParticipation Systems For Electronic Deliberation On Energy and Environmental Issues: the FEED Project”
- Sotiris Koussouris, Anna Triantafyllou, Fenareti Lampathaki: “Systems and services for eParticipation in News creation and distribution: The WEB‐DEP Project”
- Discussion and overall conclusions, led by the Workshop Chairs
TARGET AUDIENCE
Target audience includes:
- eParticipation Research Project Members,
- European Commission officials,
- Industry and Academia representatives,
- National Governments and Local Administration officers, interested in cutting‐edge advancements on electronic participation research.
All workshops participants must be properly registered with the eGOV 2008 Conference.
WORKSHOP ORGANISATION
Corresponding WS chair
Dr. Yannis Charalabidis
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Tel: +30 210 7723555
e‐mail: yannisx@epu.ntua.gr
Co‐chairs
Rob Peters, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz‐Landau, Germany
Workshop Program Committee
Julia Glidden, 21c, UK
Fraser Henderson, ICELE, UK
Catherine Howe, PUBLIC‐I LtD, UK
Jiri Hrebicek, Mazaryk University, Czech Republic
Vassilis Koulolias, GOV2U, Greece
Fenareti Lampathaki, NTUA, Greece
Euripides Loukis, Aegean University, Greece
Maria Perez Ortega, GFI, Belgium
Ella Taylor‐Smith, Napier ITC, UK
Anna Triantafyllou, ATC SA, Greece
Daniel Van Leberghe, Politech Institute, Belgium
LOCATION
Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24,
10129 Torino, Italy
More information and programme available at: http://www.uni‐koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IWVI/AGVInf/Conferences/EGOV08