EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Summer School on
TOWARDS ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY:
INTERNET-BASED DECISION SUPPORT
Villa Monastero, Varenna (LC), Italy
7 - 13 September, 2003
The European Science Foundation has established
the programme TOWARDS
ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY (TED) with the objective of discussing and evaluating
how advances in interactive decision analytic tools might help develop
inclusive e-democratic systems which involve their electorates more fully
in decision making. As part of this programme, a Summer School on
methodologies and techniques related to the programme is being held in
the magnificent
Villa Monastero at Varenna (Lake Como, Italy)
on September 7th-13th, 2003. In addition to the ESF, support is also being
provided by the Istituto di Matematica
Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
(CNR-IMATI).
OBJECTIVES OF SCHOOL
The overall objective of the TED programme is to stimulate thinking on
substantive e-democracy, using the focus of recent developments in interactive
decision analytic techniques to promote co-operative solutions to societal
decisions via Internet-based decision support. As one of the major goals
of the programme, the training of young researchers and Ph.D. students will
be pursued in different ways, including fellowships for visits and two summer
school. The summer school in Varenna, the first in the programme, aims to
form a group of young researchers who could give their contribution in the
development of the programme until the end of the year 2006.
Information is available on
For inquiries on the School, please contact the School Director,
Fabrizio Ruggeri.