e-voting conference Oct 2006

Name: "e-voting: Lessons learnt and future challenges"

Date: October 27th, 2006

Place: Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Lecturers´ presentations: Alexander H. Trechsel, Fernando Mendez, Jordi Barrat Esteve,
                                     Michael Remmert, Jonathan Stonestreet, Thad Hall, 
                                     Ivar Tallo, Ülle Madise, Epp Maaten
 
About the lecturers: Autobiography

Moderators: Heiki Sibul, Urmas Reinsalu, Peeter Marvet, Liia Hänni
Rapporteur: Fabian Breuer (report)

Participants: 120

Agenda: "e-voting: lessons learnt and future challenges"

Summary: In October, 2005 Estonia became the first country in the World to have countrywide local
elections where people could cast their vote over the Internet. Based on the success of
it, Estonian citizens had the second chance to vote over the Internet in the
parliamentary elections in March 2007.
But, what really happened with e-voting in Estonia in 2005? European University in
Florence and Estonian e-Governance Academy carried out, with a support of the
Council of Europe, a survey covering wide array of questions from participatory activity
to security fears to satisfaction with e-voting experience and presented these findings
at the conference "E-voting: lessons learnt and future challenges"

The purpose of the conference was to understand Estonian e-voting
experience and put it into wider context. Lecturers looked into both legal and
practical problems of e-voting as well as the use of the Internet in political
campaigns in order to raise the activity of voters.

The conference was organized by e-Governance Academy Foundation in cooperation with Estonian
Electoral Committee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, and the Council of Europe