EURO-CITI Tele-Voting: An Application for Realizing Opinion Poll Petitions
Stelios Gorilas, Dionisis Hoholis, Marios Sintichakis, Elias Spanos, Efthimios Tambouris · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2002
In this paper, the EURO-CITI tele-voting application is presented.This application enables local authorities to initiate a call-for-vote on a local problem, to set-up networks of local authorities' servers and initiate a call-for-vote on common problems, to monitor voting results and extract statistical information, etc.It further enables citizens to vote on local or common problems using PC, kiosks or WAP-enabled devices, to view voting results on their area or other areas (in the case of common voting), to propose their own call-for-vote, etc.The work reported in this paper includes an evaluation of tele-voting for realizing opinion poll petitions and a presentation of EURO-CITI tele-voting system user requirements, technical architecture and design.The tele-voting application is currently deployed and will be evaluated in three European cities, namely Athens, Barcelona and London borough of Brent.