e-Democracy: Improving Citizen Participation and Policy Making -- Using Weblogs to Support Local Democracy -- Web-Based Tools for Policy Evaluation -- Can Online Map-Based Applications Improve Citizen Participation? -- e-Democracy: Experiences from Different Countries -- Interactive Tools for e-Democracy: Examples from Switzerland -- "Public Budget Dialogue" - An Innovative Approach to E-Participation -- Enhancing e-Democracy Via Fiscal Transparency: A Discussion Based on China's Experience -- Political and Societal Implications -- Third Way e-Government: The Case for Local Devolution -- "Urban Versus Regional Divide: Comparing and Classifying Digital Divide" -- e-Citizen: Why Waiting for the Governments? -- Security for e-Government Services -- A Zero Knowledge Proof for Subset Selection from a Family of Sets with Applications to Multiparty/Multicandidate Electronic Elections -- A Protocol for Anonymous and Accurate E-Polling -- Model Driven Security for Inter-organizational Workflows in e-Government -- Semantic Web Technologies for e-Government -- e-Government: A Legislative Ontology for the 'SIAP' Parliamentary Management System -- No (e-)Democracy Without (e-)Knowledge -- Towards a Semantically-Driven Software Engineering Environment for eGovernment -- Architectures for Government Application Integration -- Towards Requirements for a Reference Model for Process Orchestration in e-Government -- A Distributed Architecture for Supporting e-Government Cooperative Processes -- eGovernment Service Marketplace: Architecture and Implementation -- Case Studies for Government Application Integration -- Towards Building E-Government on the Grid -- Applying the ISO RM-ODP Standard in E-Government -- Decision Support Systems -- Quixote: Supporting Group Decisions Through the Web -- UNICAP:Efficient Decision Support for Academic Resource and Capacity Management -- A Methodology Framework for Calculating the Cost of e-Government Services -- Managerial and Financial Aspects of E-Government Projects -- Good Practice in e-Government: Management over Methods? -- Participatory Budget Formation Through the Web -- On the Transition to an Open Source Solution for Desktop Office Automation -- e-Procurement -- Public eProcurement in Action: Policies, Practices and Technologies -- An Integrated Approach in Healthcare e-Procurement: The Case-Study of the ASL of Viterbo.

The TCGOV 2005 international conference on e-government was held at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano during March 2-4, 2005. The conference was initiated by the working group "Towards Electronic Democracy" (TED) of the European Science Foundation and was jointly organized by the Free University ofBozen-Bolzano,theMunicipalityofBozen-Bolzano,theTEDWorkingGroup, and the IFIP Working Group 8.5. The conference addressed a large spectrum of issues that are relevant and have to be investigated for a successful transition from the traditional form of government to a new form known as e-government. The main focus was on the following topics: - improving citizen participation and policy making (e-democracy) - government application integration - semantic Web technologies for e-government - security aspects for e-government services Two sessions were dedicated to e-democracy, an emerging area within- government that seeks to enhance democratic processes and provide increased opportunities for individuals and communities to be involved in governmental decisions.Thecontributionsofthesetwosessionscovermorefundamentalresults and insights as well as experiences from di?erent countries. Another focus was on government application integration and the use of - mantic Web technologies, which are important technical aspects on the agenda of e-government research. Di?erent architectures for the integration and orch- tration of distributed services and processes were presented along with two case studies. Three papers about Semantic Web technologies discussed the use of ontologies in e-government.