ECePS - ERA Chair in E-Governance and Digital Public Services
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ECePS is a 5-year project funded by the EU to raise the research excellence and profile of the University of Tartu in addressing three questions:• How to harness the benefits of digital transformation of government while minimizing the associated risks and ensuring security, privacy and equal access?
• How can obstacles that prevent governments from implementing e-governance systems be overcome?
• How can researchers and practitioners best utilize the vast amounts of data that is already being generated throughout the world (via existing public e-services)?
ECePS will do so by:
• Applying predictive analytics to existing e-governance systems to suggest improvements to evidence-based policymaking;
• Examining how e-governance data can be utilized to test the effect of specific policies on behavior in real time and not through ex-post impact evaluations;
• Identifying how real-time analysis of in-motion big data can be done while protecting citizens’ privacy and security;
• Examining the impact of e-participation in democratic systems;
Recent Submissions
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Electronic Voting: 7th International Joint Conference, E-Vote-ID 2022 Bregenz, Austria, October 4–7, 2022 Proceedings
(Springer International Publishing, 2022)This volume contains papers presented at E-Vote-ID 2022, the Seventh International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, held during October 4–7, 2022. This was the first in-person conference following the COVID-19 pandemic, ... -
Electronic Voting: 6th International Joint Conference, E-Vote-ID 2021, virtual event, October 5-8, 2021
(Springer Cham, 2021-09-28)This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2021, held online -due to COVID -19- in Bregenz, Austria, in October 2021. The 14 full papers presented were carefully ... -
How to Make an Entrepreneurial State: Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-02-02)In their book “How to Make an Entrepreneurial State”, the academic nuclear family Kattel – Drechsler – Karo (Kattel was Drechsler’s first PhD student, and Karo was Kattel’s first PhD student, and all authors have roots in ... -
Data-Driven Personalized E-Government Services: Literature Review and Case Study
(Springer International Publishing, 2021-09-07)Better targeted and more personalized service offering to citizens has the potential to make state-citizen interactions more seamless, reduce inefficiencies in service provision, and lower barriers to service access for ... -
The Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (DGO2022) Intelligent Technologies, Governments and Citizens June 15-17, 2022
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022-09-14)The 23rd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research theme is “Intelligent Technologies, Governments and Citizens”. Data and computational algorithms make systems smarter, but should result in smarter ... -
Automated impact assessment - How digitizing government enables rapid and tailor-made policy responses
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022-09-14)As interest in the digital transformation of public administration grows, the main challenge remains to improve government governance systems and integrate a wider range of evidence into decisionmaking processes. The ... -
Global Intelligent Governance—A Collaborative Platform
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021-06-09)The purpose of this panel on “Global Intelligent Governance—A Collaborative Platform (GIG-CP)” is to discuss the feasibility and need for developing a collaborative platform to facilitate a global network-to-network ... -
Building Global Societies on Collective Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022-10-14)Digital disruptions caused by the use of technologies like social media arguably present a formidable challenge to democratic values and in turn to Collective Intelligence. Challenges such as misinformation, partisan bias, ... -
Digital Sovereignty and Participation in an Autocratic State: Designing an e-Petition System for Developing Countries
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021-06-09)Establishing a sustainable citizens-government dialogue is a crucial topic on the agenda of many countries. E-petition systems are among the most popular and effective tools for establishing a responsive and effective ... -
Institutional Trust and Social Media Use in Citizen-State Relations: Results from an international cross country vignette study
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022)The objective of this article is to identify whether trust affects citizens’ use of social media to initiate conversations with government on social media platforms. Using a vignette survey, we gathered data from the Canada, ... -
E-Vote-ID 2022
(2022-10)This volume contains papers presented at E-Vote-ID 2022, the Seventh International JointConference on Electronic Voting, held during October 4–7, 2022. This was the first in-personconference following the COVID-19 pandemic, ... -
E-Voting Wasm Cryptography
(2022)The Sequent Voting Platform is an open-source E2EV internet voting system currently used in private organisations and non-legally binding elections of public organisations. The system employs standard cryptographic ... -
Electis.app White Paper
(2022)The Electis voting App (Electis.app) is a web application built using Django and ElectionGuard SDK). The latter comes with homomorphic encryption and end-to-end verifiable proof of ballots and tally (initially designed for ... -
The highly secure anonymous e-voting system of the Czech Pirate Party
(2022)The article describes the open-source e-voting system of the Czech Pirate Party including the applications, their modifications and interconnection. Overall, it provides an insight into the highly credible, secure and ... -
Post-Election Audits in the Philippines
(2022)How do you observe the unobservable? The election technology in use in the Philippines are optical ballot scanners called Vote Counting Machines (VCMs) that scan, count, and transmit election results at the close of ... -
Adaptation of an i-voting scheme to Italian Elections for Citizens Abroad
(2022)We adapt the Ara´ujo-Traor´e protocol to Italian elections, with emphasis on anti-coercion measures. In this short paper we focus on a new method for managing anti-coercion credentials for each voter. -
The Diffusion of Electronic Voting for Participatory Budgeting Projects: Evidence from Ukraine
(2022)Electronic voting for participatory budgeting projects in Ukraine it is understudied. Therefore, the paper aims to investigate the patterns of diffusion of e-voting for participatory budgeting projects in Ukraine. This ... -
Return Codes from Lattice Assumptions
(2022)We present an approach for creating return codes for latticebased electronic voting. For a voting system with four control components and two rounds of communication our scheme results in a total of 2.3MB of communication ... -
Review of the Overseas E-voting (OSEV) system used in the Australian Capital Territory
(2022)The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) contains the Australian national capital Canberra; the territory has a 25-member legislative assembly combing both state and local government functions. The members of the assembly ...