eDemocracy 2019: 8th eDemocracy International Conference: Safeguarding Democracy and Human Rights in the Digital Age Divani Caravel Hotel Athens, Greece, December 12-13, 2019 |
Conference website | http://www.edemocracy2019.eu |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edemocracy2019 |
Submission deadline | August 22, 2019 |
The ever-evolving digital age is becoming more intelligent and the future internet is shaping up. Technologies supporting the digital transformation, such as artificial intelligence, the internet of things, blockchain technologies, and robotics are developing in unprecedented rhythms. A new digital environment emerges, promising a lot, but also raising concerns about democracy itself and individual rights and freedoms.
The relatively recent Cambridge Analytica scandal has profoundly influenced public opinion and -as written by many- has changed the world and the way citizens see their digital future. The effects of fake news and targeted political campaigns enabled by data misuse on democratic processes raise serious concerns. There are also fears of affecting the outcome of a democratic election itself. Moreover, the rapid development of technologies supporting the digital transformation, which is largely driven by significant economic benefits, raises concerns about the impact on privacy and, in general, on individual rights and freedoms.
How can we safeguard our democracy against such threats?
How can we create an intelligent digital world while ensuring individual rights and freedoms?
Will our future digital world be privacy-friendly and secure to withstand attacks and malicious activities?
Which ethical principles should govern the evolution of our digital future?
Will this fast moving and intelligent digital world be trustworthy and embraced by the citizens?
These are the questions and the focus of the 8th occasion of the International Conference on e-Democracy that will be held in Athens, the cradle of democracy, on 12-13 December 2019. 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, as in 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.
Submission Guidelines
All submitted papers to the conference will be peer reviewed, while acceptance will be based on quality, relevance, and originality. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap 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=edemocracy2019.
Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk to be rejected without consideration of their merits.
Deadline for receiving papers is 18 August 2019 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference.
The authors of selected accepted papers will be invited to extend their work for further publication in special issues of well-known Scientific Journals.
The working language of the 8th International Conference on “e-Democracy 2019: Safeguarding Democracy and Human Rights in the Digital Age” is English. It is possible though, that Greek Law cases on e-Democracy issues or Workshops on GDPR can be presented in Greek.
List of Topics
Also, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Also, 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
- Citizen centered applications
- Transparency in online applications
- Protection against disinformation
- Security, Data Protection/Privacy and Trust
- Security, Privacy, and Trust in Online Social Networks
- Applied Cryptography
- Risk Analysis and Management
- Software and System Security
- Blockchain Technology and its applications
- Cloud Computing Security and Privacy
- Identity Management, Identity Theft, and Trust and Reputation Management
- Artificial Intelligence for Security and Data Protection
- Security and Privacy Audit, Risk and Governance
- Security and Data Protection Education
- Human aspects of security
- Authentication technologies
- Privacy by Design and Default Methodologies
- Privacy Impact Assessment Methodologies
- Privacy Enhancing Technologies
- Measuring and Quantifying Privacy
- Privacy Modelling and Analysis
- Privacy-preserving Computing
- Differential Privacy
- e-Crime, e-Fraud and Digital Forensics
- Cyber Crime Detection and Prevention
- Internet Fraud, Cyber War
- Computer Forensics and Antiforensics
- Social, legal and ethical issues
- Transparency and Accountability in Data Protection
- Ethics in Digital Societies
- Surveillance Technologies and Legal Implications
- Freedom of Information and Expression, and Privacy
- Social factors of collaborative creativity
- Anonymity vs accountability
- Ethical principles of AI Systems
- Ethics in Robotics
Committees
Organizing committee
Chairs:
- Sokratis K. Katsikas, Vice President of HSCIS, Greece (ska@unipi.gr)
- Vasilis Zorkadis, President of HSCIS, Greece (zorkadis@dpa.gr)
- Secretary: Stergios Tsiafoulis, Secretary General of HSCIS, Greece (stetsiafoulis@gmail.com)
- Τreasurer : George Loukeris, Τreasurer of HSCIS, Greece (loukeris@otenet.gr)
Members
- Constantina Costopoulou, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
- Constantine Yialouris, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
- Elias Pimenidis, University of the West of England, UK
- Euripidis N. Loukis, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Zoi Kardasiadou, European Data Protection Supervisor
- Irene Vassilaki, Lawyer, Greece
- Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
- Spyros Voulgaris, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Program Committee
- Zacharoula Andreopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Applied Science (TEI) of Larissa, Greece
- Maria Bottis, Ionian University, Greece Athena Bourka, ENISA, Greece
- Elias Carayannis, George Washington University, USA
- David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK
- Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, UK
- Tina Costopoulou, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
- Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research, UAE
- Sabrina De, Capitani di Vimercati Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Prokopios Drogkaris, ENISA, Greece
- Carmen Fernández-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain
- Sara Foresti, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK
- Jürgen Fuß, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria
- Dimitris Geneiatakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Christos Georgiadis, University of Macedonia, Greece
- Dimitris Gouscos, University of Athens, Greece
- Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Mp Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
- Marit Hansen, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
- Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Ioanna Kantzavelou, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
- Zoe Kardasiadou, European Data Protection Supervisor, Belgium
- Sotiris Karetsos, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
- Maria Karyda, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Sokratis Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece
- Spyros Kokolakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Nicholas Kolokotronis, University of Peloponnese, Greece
- Panayiotis Kotzanikolaou, University of Piraeus, Greece
- Stewart Kowalski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
- Georgios Lappas, Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Western Macedonia, Greece
- Kostas Limniotis, Data Protection Authority, Greece
- Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
- Nikos Lorentzos, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
- Euripidis Loukis, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Emmanouil Magkos, Ionian University, Greece
- Vojtech Merunka, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic
- Lilian Mitrou, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Martin Molhanec, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
- Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK
- Maria Ntaliani, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
- Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece
- Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland
- Peter Parycek, Danube-University Krems, Austria
- Andreas Pashalidis, BSI, Germany
- Vassilios Verykios, Hellenic Open University, Greece
- Charalampos Patrikakis, Piraeus University of Applied Sciences (T.E.I. of Piraeus), Greece
- Alois Paulin, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany
- Elias Pimenidis, University of the West of England, UK
- Vassilis Prevelakis, Technical University, Braunschweig, Germany
- Panagiotis Rizomiliotis, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Vittorio Scarano, University of Salerno, Italy
- Alexander Sideridis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
- Miguel Soriano, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Antonis Stasis, Hellenic Ministry of Administrative Reconstruction, Greece
- Stephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece
- Vasileios Vlachos, Technological Educational Institute of Larissa, Greece
- Spyros Voulgaris, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria
- Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
- Constantine Yialouris, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
- Thomas Zacharias, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Zaheer Khan,University of the West of England, UK
- Theo Spyridopoulos, University of the West of England, UK
- Panagiotis Andriotis, University of the West of England, UK
- Nikolaos Polatidis, University of Brighton, UK
- Jianying Zhou, Institute for infocomm research, Singapore
- Vangelis Grigoroudis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
- Vasilis Zorkadis, Data Protection Authority, Greece
Publication
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The conference proceedings, as of all previous editions of the International Conference on e-Democracy, will be published in the Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science series, (https://www.springer.com/series/7899). 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). Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.
Furthermore, it is planned, as previously, to invite the authors of selected accepted papers in order to extend their work for further publication in the Emerald journal Information and Computer Security (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journal/ics#) and to participate (after the necessary enhancements) to the evaluation process for inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Electronic Governance (http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijeg)
The working language of the 8th International Conference on “e-Democracy 2019: Safeguarding Democracy and Human Rights in the Digital Era” is English. It is possible, however, that presentations of Greek Law cases on e-Democracy issues or Workshops on the GDPR to be held in Greek.
Venue
The conference will be held in Divany Caravel Hotel, Athens, Greece
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to zorkadis@dpa.gr