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[Stevan Harnad]

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From: Noella Edelmann noella.edelmann -- donau-uni.ac.at
Date: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:14 AM
Subject: EDem10 - 4th International Conference on eDemocracy- 6/7 May
2010 Danube University Krems, Austria
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Call For Papers:

EDem10
4th International Conference on eDemocracy
6 and 7 May 2010
Danube University Krems, Austria
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem

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

Confirmed Keynote Speakers
 • Stevan Harnad (American Scientist Open Access Forum; Universite du Quebec
a Montreal, CAN; University of Southampton, UK)
• Ismael Peña-López (Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain)
• Jochen Scholl (The Information School, University of Washington, USA)
• Micah L. Sifry (Personal Democracy Forum, TechPresident, New York, USA)
• Andy Williamson (Hansard Society, London, UK)

Call for Papers
Scientific eDemocracy visions and models have been developed since the
1960s, but it is now, during the first decade of the 21st Century, that they
are becoming reality, being tested and implemented. Extensive IT provides
the necessary basis, but it is not the developments in IT alone that are
responsible for successful eDemocracy projects - it is due all those who use
and apply them, as they adopt new behaviours and change old ones. 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 adopted, the changed mindset, along with improved usability and a
still-increasing use of the internet, 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, eDeliberation;
• Approaches and Disciplines: law & legal studies, social sciences, computer
sciences, political sciences, psychology, sociology, applied computer gaming
and simulation, democratic theory, media and communication sciences;
• Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches;
• 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.

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.

Deadlines
Submission of papers (max. 10 pages): Extended Deadline - 1 March  2010
Notification of acceptance:  2. April 2010
Camera-ready paper submission: 12. April 2010

Conference: 6-7 May 2010

Submissions
To submit your paper, please visit the conference website
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem
All submissions will be submitted to a double-blind full paper review by at
least 2 reviewers.

Further Information
Conference Website: www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem
Direct contact: michael.sachs--donau-uni.ac.at,
noella.edelmann---donau-uni.ac.at
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.

Kind regards
Noella Edelmann

Noella Edelmann BA, MSc, MAS
Researcher

EDem10 Conference
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem

eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government
http://www.jedem.org

Digital Government Blog
http://digitalgovernment.wordpress.com/

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
noella.edelmann--donau-uni.ac.at