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e-DC researcher Uwe Serdült presented the Swiss experience in the Conference on "Internet Voting and Direct Democracy" on 14 May 2008 that took place at the Forum Parlament, Palais Epstein, in Vienna, Austria. See Programme Read more.
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e-Democracy CentreWelcome to the e-DC, one of the first interdisciplinary research centres dedicated to the study of e-democracy. Our main goal here at the e-DC is to improve our understanding of how new information and communication technologies are interacting with our institutions of democratic governance, and to study the outcomes that are produced as a result. To attain this goal the e-DC research team strives to pursue interdisciplinary research of the highest intellectual quality.
From its inception the e-DC has been fortunate in being able to rely on the support of three leading research institutes: the Research Centre on Direct Democracy (c2d) at the University of Zürich, the European University Institute (EUI) at Florence, and the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford.
Our areas of expertise and close connections with the academic and policy communities offer us many opportunities to not only help develop this exciting new field of research, but also to contribute to its practice.
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On 1 September 2007, the eDC moved its administrative seat from the University of Geneva to the University of Zurich. It has now become a unit within the newly founded Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau (ZDA), Univeristy of Zürich.
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Recent news
e-DC researchers give a presentation on e-democracy for parliaments to this international conference organised by the ITU, the Interparliamentary Union, and the Global Center for ICT and Parliament, UNDESA on 11 October 2007. Read more.
e-DC researcher Uwe Serdült presented his findings from a social networking research project called Actor Process Event Schemes (APES) at the Metropolitan University of Tokyo on 19 September 2007
e-DC researchers traveled to Costa Rica to give a presentation at a conference on referendums held by IDEA and the Corte Nacional Electoral de Costa Rica. The topic of the presentation was direct democracy and the use of internet electoral platforms.
eDC researchers have helped organize and will participate in The International Conference on Direct Democracy in Latin America. In total, 8 eDC members will give presentations at the conference from March 14-15 in the Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Read more.
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