Antonis GALETSAS

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• Antonis GALETSAS
• European Commission,
• DG INFSO, B3, Administrations

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• RESEARCH DOMAIN
• INFORMATION ACCESS PRESENTATION
• AGORA 2000, EDEN, E-POWER, E-COURT
• ON LINE TRANSACTIONS
• EUROCITI
• ON LINE CONSULTATIONS eVOTING
• DEMOS, CYBERVOTE, E-POLL, WEBOCRACY

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• SOCIO ECONOMIC DIMENSION
• CYBERVOTE Increased citizen participation in
  elections/polls, Cost Reduction
• E-POLL Fast clear results presentation
• AGORA 2000 Increased citizen participation in
  the political decision making
• EUROCITI process. Transparent presentation of
  policies.
• WEBOCRACY Easier cheaper financial
  transactions, C2A, A2B
• EDEN Reaching conclusions during on line
  consultations
• DEMOS

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• TECHNICAL DIMENSION
• CYBERVOTE Trustworthy e-voting protocol, user
  authentication,
• E-POLL biometrics, smart carts,
• AGORA 2000 Web technologies, data security,
  distributed open software
• EUROCITI on-line interactive 3D-GIS systems,
• E-COURT Multilingual Information Retrieval
  System, Workflow management,
• DEMOS Expert Systems, Natural Language
  Processing tools
• EDEN

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• REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS
• CYBERVOTE
• Develop an Internet voting system that will
  enable European citizens to vote through their
  mobile telephones and PCs
• Review legal issues regarding the use of an
  internet voting system in EU
• Demonstrate prototype system with trials
  indifferent EU countries
• Project start Sep 2000, duration 30 months,
  Consortium MATRA plus 7 contractors
• EUROCITI
• Develop a set of new public transaction services,
  i.e tele-voting, tele-consulting and eform
  submission
• Review PA process re-engineering requirements in
  order to take advantage of the above services
• Demonstrate prototype system with trials
  indifferent EU countries
• Project start Sep 2000, duration 24 months,
  Consortium UoA plus 7 contractors
• More infohttp//www.cordis.lu/ist/projects.htm

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• EXPECTED USE OF PROJECT RESULTS
• The EU Research projects explore the
  technological options which will support
  eDemocracy in the future
• Legal and user acceptance obstacles are reviewed
• BUT
• EU research projects do not define or impose the
  use of a particular scenario for the future
  acceptable forms of eDemocracy.