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4th International Conference on eDemocracy, 6-7 May 2010

EDem10
4th International Conference on eDemocracy
6 and 7 May 2010
Danube University Krems

“A revolution doesn’t happen when a society adopts new tools.
It happens when society adopts new behaviours“(Clay Shirky)

Call for Papers

It is only now, during the first decade of the 21st Century, that those scientific eDemocracy visions developed in both in the 60s and the 90s are becoming reality and implemented. Surprisingly, it is not the IT developments in IT alone that are responsible for successful eDemocracy projects – it is all those members of society who use them, as they adopt new behaviours. The new, digital generation lives and breathes new values: they collaborate, compile content together, share their ideas, create networks on social platforms and organise themselves quickly and simply. The new values held, the new behaviours, the changed mindset, with improved usability and a usage of the internet which still continues, has led to a rapid and radical change in our society.

The EDem10 focuses on these changes which can be seen occurring in different areas and which are manifest in different way:

• Transparency & Communication (freedom of information, free information access, openness, information sharing, blogging, micro-blogging, social networks, data visualization, eLearning, empowering, …)
• Participation & Collaboration (innovation malls, innovation communities, bottom up, top down, social networks, engagement and accountability, collaborative culture, collaboration between C2C, G2C, …)
• Architecture, Concepts & Effects (access and openness, user generated content, peer production, network effects, power laws, long tail, harnessing the power of the crowd, crowd sourcing, social web, semantic web, …)
• Different Fields: open government initiatives, eDemocracy, eParticipation, eVoting,
• Different Disciplines: law, social science, computer science, political science, psychology, sociology
• Research Methods

Our primary aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners. We would like to invite individuals from academic, applied and practitioner backgrounds as well as public administration offices, public bodies, NGO/NPOs, education institutions and independent organisations to submit their research and project papers.

The main conference language is English; submissions in German (with an abstract in English) are also acceptable.

Keynote Speakers

Ismael Peña-López - Lecturer and researcher, School of Law and Political Science
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain)

Micah Sifry - Co-founder and editor of the Personal Democracy Forum, editor of TechPresident, Sunlight Foundation Consultant (USA)

Andy Williamson - Director eDemocracy Programme at the Hansard Society London (U.K.)

Fees

EUR 105,- for authors and PEP-NET Members
EUR 125,- early bird rate for participants who register until 28.02.2010
EUR 145,- for participants who register after 28.02.2010

The fee includes conference, proceedings and social program during the conference.
A pre-conference social program will be announced later.

The Proceedings will be published by the Austrian Computer Society.

The EDEM conference series is jointly organised by the Danube University Krems and the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna.

Deadlines

Submission of papers (max. 10 pages): 21.12.2009
Notification of acceptance: 31.01.2010
Final paper submission: 28.02.2010

Conference: 6-7 May 2010

Submissions

Please send your submission in pdf format to peter.parycek@donau-uni.ac.at or alexander.prosser@wu-wien.ac.at . Submission via a Web page will be made available soon.
All submissions will be submitted to a double-blind full paper review by at least 2 reviewers. To facilitate the review process, please write a separate cover sheet with the paper title and affiliation/s and omit the affiliations in the actual paper.

Further Information
www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem