Session 1: Politics - Legislation - Regulatory Framework I -- A Study on the Lack of Enforcement of Data Protection Acts -- The Impact of the Web and Political Balance to e-Democracy -- Using Structured e-Forum to Support the Legislation Formation Process -- Session 2: Enhancing Quality of Life through e-Services -- From the Digital Divide to Digital Inequality: A Secondary Research in the European Union -- Inkjet-Printed Paper-Based RFID and Nanotechnology-Based Ultrasensitive Sensors: The “Green” Ultimate Solution for an Ever Improving Life Quality and Safety? -- Examining Adoption of e-Procurement in Public Sector Using the Perceived Characteristics of Innovating: Indonesian Perspective -- Session 3: Politics - Legislation - Regulatory Framework II -- Studying the Interaction of the Epistemology in e-Government, Organization Studies and Information Systems -- Session 4: Supporting Democracy through e-Services -- e-Campaigning: The Present and Future -- e-Democracy: The Political Culture of Tomorrow’s Citizens -- Parademo: e-Democracy Based on a Delegated Expert Selection Process in a Small-World Network -- Telep@b Project: Towards a Model for eParticipation and a Case Study in Participatory Budgeting -- Stakeholder e-Participation in Local Planning: The Camargue Park Case -- Session 5: Identity Management, Privacy and Trust -- Core Structure Elements Architectures to Facilitate Construction and Secure Interconnection of Mobile Services Frameworks and Advanced IAM Systems -- Economics of Personal Data Management: Fair Personal Information Trades -- Evaluating Common Privacy Vulnerabilities in Internet Service Providers -- Intellectual Property Rights Protection in Peer to Peer Networks -- Session 6: Security, Attacks and Crime -- Information Assurance and Forensic Readiness -- An Ontology-Driven antiSPIT Architecture -- Can Formalism Alone Provide an Answer to the Quest of a Viable Definition of Trust in the WWW Society? -- Biological Aspects of Computer Virology -- Information Systems Security Management: A Review and a Classification of the ISO Standards -- Web Server Security on Open Source Environments -- Session 7: e-Government and Local e-Government -- e-Government Readiness, Strategy and Two Different User Groups - in Austria -- On e-Government Project Development in Balmeda -- A Prototype System for Electronic Data Interchange among Registrar’s Offices of Different States -- e-Government for Development Information Exchange (DIE): Zambia -- Session 8: Education and Training -- Semantic e-Learning: Next Generation of e-Learning? -- Supporting Rural Citizens’ Access to Knowledge: One More Aspect of e-Democracy -- Evaluating a Greek National Action on Parents’ Training on ICT and Internet Safety -- Evaluating a Greek National Action on Students’ Training on ICT and Programming Competences -- Session 9: Collaboration, Social Networking, Blogs -- OPSIS: An Open, Preventive and Scalable Migration Information System -- Online Communities: The Case of Immigrants in Greece -- From Online to Ubiquitous Cities: The Technical Transformation of Virtual Communities -- A New Paradigm for Secure Social Lending -- Techno Generation: Social Networking amongst Youth in South Africa -- Combining Immersive Virtual Worlds and Virtual Learning Environments into an Integrated System for Hosting and Supporting Virtual Conferences -- Session 10: Pervasive, Ubiquitous, and Intelligent Computing -- Social Network Analysis and Its Applications in Wireless Sensor and Vehicular Networks -- SWEB: An Advanced Mobile Residence Certificate Service -- p-Democracy a Pervasive Majority Rule -- Group Monitoring in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International ICST Conference, e-Democracy 2009, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2009. The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed. The papers are organized in topical sections on politics - legislation - regulatory framework I; enhancing quality of life through e-services; politics - legislation - regulatory framework II supporting democracy through e-services; identity management, privacy and trust; securitiy, attacks and crime; e-government & local e-government; education and training; collaboration, social networking, blogs; pervasive, ubiquitous, and intelligent computing.