Luis Terán

• Friday 12th of November, 08.30 - 12:00, room: PER 21 F130
• Friday 19th of November, 08.30 - 12:00, room: PER 21 F130
• Friday 26th of November, 08.30 - 12:00, room: PER 21 F130

The course eGovernment describes the simplification and execution of information, communication, and exchange processes between public administrations, public administrations and citizens, respectively public administration and private organisations, to provide electronic public services.

For citizens, web-based services include access to the tax system, social security, career support, or official documents. For organizations, these services give access to business formation, tax, statistics, procurement or environmental protection.

eDemocracy enables citizens, through the use of information and communication technologies, to exercise their rights and fulfill their obligations in the information and knowledge society in a time and place independent way: The citizen is involved in the clarification and planning of the public authorities, improved and customized information and discussion policies, customized to e citizen's need, barrier-free web access for electronic polls, building communities in various areas of the society, exercising their rights at every communal level as well as improving political controlling through adequate archiving and documentation systems.

• Master of Economics
• Master in Computer Science
• Joint Master: University of Bern, University of Neuchâtel, and University of Fribourg.

• Case Study with an eGovernment institution, e.g. WACG for handicaped people. 
• Prototype Presentation, e.g. Open Source Wiki.
• Research Paper Study.

Small Report of Projects: maximum 20 - 40 pages.

Final Presentation: 20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes of questions and discussion.

Dates of Final Presentation: Wednesday 1st, and Thursday 2nd of December, room: to be confirmed.

Topic Selection: Monday 4th of October

• Name of Students
• Type of Project (Research Paper, Case Study or Prototype)
• Working Titles (at least two titles)

Proposal: Friday 15th of October

• Use proposal template

Final Report: Tuesday, 30th of November

• Use the guidelines on how to write a scientific work

More Information: Course Introduction (483 Kb)

• Andreas Meier: Electronic Services – NPO go for WWW (in German). Fachzeitschrift für Verbands- und Nonprofit-Management, 26. Jhrg., Nr. 3, 2001, S. 54-63
• Andreas Meier (ed.): eGovernment (in German). dpunkt Publisher, Heidelberg 2002,
  http://hmd.dpunkt.de/226/index.html
• Stefan Hüsemann: A Web-based Information Exchange Platform for International Humanitarian Projects (in German). DUV, Wiesbaden 2003,
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• Andreas Meier: Citizen Relationship Management – A Online Communication Modell for Citizens (in German). In: Hildebrand K. (ed.): IT-Solutions in Commerce. dpunkt Publisher, Heidelberg 2004,
  http://hmd.dpunkt.de/235/index.html
• Andreas Meier: Informationsmanagement for NPOs and NGOs (in German), Springer Publisher 2006.
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• Peter Haas, Andreas Meier: Electronic Services – NPO go for WWW (in German). Fachzeitschrift für Verbands- und Nonprofit-Management, 26. Jhrg., Nr. 3, 2001, S. 54-63
• Andreas Meier, Heinz Sauerburger (eds.). eHealth (in German). dpunkt Publisher, Heidelberg 2006,
  http://hmd.dpunkt.de/251/index.html
• Andreas Meier: eVoting and eElection (in German). To appear in: Hofmann J., Reich S. (eds.): eGovernment. dpunkt Publisher, Heidelberg 2008,
  http://hmd.dpunkt.de/265/vorschau.html
• Terán L., Meier A.: A Fuzzy Recommender System for eElection. International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Per- spective, EGOVIS 2010, LNCS 6267, Bilbao, Spain, September 2010, pp. 62-76.
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• Terán L., Drygajlo A.: On Development of Inspection System for Biometric Passports Using Java. Joint COST 2101 AND 2102 International Conference, BioID_MultiComm 2009, LNCS 5707, Madrid, Spain, September 2009, pp. 268-275.
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The Book (in German)

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