[ecrea] e-Democracy 2017 call for papers

7th International Conference on e-Democracy

e-Democracy 2017: Privacy-Preserving, Secure, Intelligente-Government 
Services

CALL FOR PAPERS

December 14-15, 2017, Athens, Greece

http://www.edemocracy2017.eu

ICT innovations such as Big Data, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing as 
well as Intelligent Systems employed in e-Government services raise 
issues relating to Security, Privacy and Data Protection. Governments 
want to integrate more services and enhance participation, but they have 
to convince the users that they can be trusted. At the same time 
e-Government services need to improve their efficiency and to do so they 
need to reengineer their back office processes, to support them with 
intelligent systems, but also improve openness, collaboration and 
citizen participation. This last point can be hugely enhanced by 
offering citizens participation in devolved decision making and e-voting 
facilities for elections. Such services are often quoted as being 
dependent on political will, but are the systems and services ready? Are 
they privacy-friendly and secure to withstand attacks and malicious or 
even terrorist activities in cyberspace? Are they trustworthy to be 
embraced by the citizens in a digital world that is moving fast and 
becoming more intelligent? And finally, where should be drawn the 
“golden line” between anonymity and confidentiality, and accountability 
and certification?

These are the questions and the focus of the 7th occasion of the 
International Conference on e-Democracy that will be held in Athens, the 
cradle of democracy, on December 14-15, 2017. 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 
European and Greek Universities, Academia and Research. 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, legal and regulatory point of view.

The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, panels, Ph.D. 
colloquia and sessions, workshops, special, regular and poster sessions. 
All submitted papers to the conference will be peer reviewed, while 
acceptance will be based on quality, relevance, and originality. 
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and 
selected papers will be invited to participate (after the necessary 
enhancements) to the evaluation process for inclusion in special issues 
of peer-reviewed journals.

The working language of the 7th International Conference on “e-Democracy 
2017: Privacy-Preserving, Secure, Intelligent e-Government Services”  is 
English. It is possible though, that Greek Law cases on e-Democracy 
issues can be presented in Greek.

Topics of interest

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

e-Democracy and e-Participation

     e-Campaigning, e-Politics
     Tools for supporting freedom of expression, opinion, assembly and 
association
     e-Justice
     e-Voting
     Supporting children’s rights online
     Information and Consultation Platforms
     Collaborative working environments for e-Democracy
     Social computing and e-Democracy
     Citizen-sourcing and Policy Informatics
     Value Co-creation
     Citizen centered applications
     Smart Cities

e-Government

     Open and Big Data for e-Government
     Cloud computing for e-Government
     Intelligent Systems in e-Government Services
     Artificial Intelligence Applications in e-Government
     Blockchain Technologies for e-Government
     Machine Learning Techniques in e-Government Systems
     Robots in e-Government Systems
     m-Government
     e-Government services and administrative burdens
     Business process modeling for e-Government systems
     Tools and models for e-Government development
    Human rights enhancing technologies
     Case studies and European projects

Security, Privacy and Trust

     Security, Privacy and Trust in e-Business services
     Security, Privacy and Trust in e-Government services
     Security, Privacy and Trust in Online Social Network Services
     Cloud Computing Security and Privacy
     CyberPhysical Systems Security
     Identity Management, Identity Theft and Trust Management
     Information Audit and Trust
     Intelligent Systems for Data Protection or/and Security
     Artificial Intelligence for Security or/and Data Protection
     Machine Learning Techniques in Security or/and Data Protection
     Trust and Reputation in Digital Environments
     Cyber attacks and Advances on Network Security
     Cryptographic Technologies
     Anonymisation Methodologies and Best Practices
     Privacy by Design and Default Methodologies
     Tracking Technologies and Do-Not-Track Systems
     Privacy Impact Assessment Methodologies
     Privacy Enhancing Location and Mobility Management
     Security and Privacy Audit, Risk and Governance
     Security and Data Protection Education
     Tradeoffs between security and efficiency, usability, reliability 
and cost
     Biometrics and privacy

e-Crime, e-Fraud and Digital Forensics

     Cyber Crime Detection and Prevention
     Internet Fraud, Cyber War
     Computer Forensics and Anti-forensics

Social, legal and ethical issues

     Transparency and Accountability in Data Protection
     Ethics in Digital Societies
     Surveillance Technologies and Legal Implications
     Freedom of Expression and Privacy
     Freedom of Information and Privacy
     Social factors of collaborative creativity
     Right to anonymity vs accountability


Important Dates

Full paper submission deadline: 16 June 2017

Notification of decision: 3 September 2017

Camera-ready deadline: 17 September 2017


Instructions for Authors

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have 
been published or that have been simultaneously submitted to a journal 
or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be at most 15 pages 
long, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and should 
follow the LNCS style 
(http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). 
Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edemocracy17. Only pdf files 
will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk 
rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received 
by the deadline of 16 June 2017 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time). 
Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be 
presented at the conference. Conference proceedings will be published in 
the Springer’s Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) 
series (http://www.springer.com/series/7899) .

The authors of selected accepted papers will be invited to extend their 
work for further publication in special issues of well known Scientific 
Journals.


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