An electronic polling service to support public awareness using web technologies

This paper presents a Web-based, database-oriented application called "Electronic Polling", a smart way to support voting on common subjects in which all people of a Local Authority are interested. The systems services were planned and implemented to be easily expandable. The application is based on state-of-the-art software platform, integrating WWW and database. The system aims to become a pilot in future efforts relative with "on line Democracy". The system provides the capability to create a poll, view the subject and participate to the voting procedure. Only authorised users can participate to use the system to vote or create a poll but all users can view results from previous voting procedures.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: ECIS
• Authors: Christos Bouras, Nikolaos Katris, Vassilis Triantafillou
• Keywords: Database-oriented Application, ECIS 2001, ECIS 2004, State-of-the-art Software Platform, Voting Procedures