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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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 ... -
Internet Voting is Being Pushed by False Claims and Deceptive Marketing
(2022)While the convenience of voting from a computer or smartphone over the Internet may seem to be desirable, there is overwhelming evidence that ballots cast electronically cannot be adequately secured to protect the legitimacy ... -
Dubious security practices in e-voting schemes Between tech and legal standards
(2022)Remote electronic voting has been around for a few decades now. However, some legal uncertainty regarding its uses remains. In this paper, we would like to highlight and discuss several techniques used in e-voting which ... -
Auditing Ranked Voting Elections with Dirichlet-Tree Models: First Steps
(2022)Ranked voting systems, such as instant-runo voting (IRV) and single transferable vote (STV), are used in many places around the world. They are more complex than plurality and scoring rules, pre- senting a challenge ... -
A theoretical framework for understanding trust and distrust in internet voting
(2022)Each and every case of success and failure in the implementation of internet voting is permeated by a common element: the concept of trust. Several researchers highlighted the relevance of creating trust for the successful ... -
Features and usage of Belenios in 2022
(2022)Belenios is an open-source Internet voting protocol associated to a free voting platform, launched in 2015. A detailed overview of the protocol has been presented in [6] in 2019 and its complete, up-todate specification ... -
VoteXX: A Solution to Improper Influence in Voter-Verifiable Elections (extended abstract)
(2022)We solve a long-standing challenge to the integrity of votes cast without the supervision of a voting booth: “improper influence,” which we define as any combination of vote buying and voter coercion. Our approach allows ... -
Visual Secrets : A recognition-based security primitive and its use for boardroom voting
(2022)This paper presents and evaluates a new security primitive in the form of non-transferable “visual secrets”. We show how they can be used in the design of voting systems. More specifically, we introduce a receipt-free ...
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