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.

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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.- AnOntology-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 MajorityRule.- Group Monitoring in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.