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Steffen Dalsgaard to join The Young Academy of Denmark

11. June 2013

From September 2013 Steffen Dalsgaard will be a member of ​The Young Academy of Denmark (Det Unge Akademi). The Young Academy is a section for young talented scholars under the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters. Its purpose is to strengthen basic research and the interdisciplinary exchange, bridging the gap between science and society - and to give a united voice to some of the most excellent young scientists in Denmark.

Carsten gave a talk at CADE 2013 in Lake Placid, USA

11. June 2013

Carsten presented a joint paper with Bernhard Beckert (KIT) and Rajeev Gore (ANU) on Analysing Vote Counting Algorithms Via Logic at CADE-13 in Lake Placid, USA]. Click here for the slides.

Twelf tutorial in Lake Placid, USA

10. June 2013

The wait is over. Finally another ​Twelf tutorial, this time collocated with CADE 2013 in Lake Placid, NY.

Carsten's invited talk at the AR-SEC 2013 workshop in Lake Placid, USA

9. June 2013

Carsten gave his talk on Certifying Voting Protocols at the​AR-SEC 2013 workshop in Lake Placid, USA. Click here for the slides.

Carsten's talk at the Egypt-US Cyber Security workshop in Cairo

28. May 2013

Carsten gave a talk on Certifying Voting Protocols at the ​Egypt-US Cyber Security Workshop. Click here for the slides.

DemTech Invited Lecture : UNDP-Egypt ICT4D

30. April 2013

• Title: UNDP ICT4D
• Speaker: Sherif El Tokali, Assistant Resident Representative of the UNDP-Egypt
• Date: April 30
• Room: 5A60
• Time: 10:00-11:00

Abstract: Throughout the past decade United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has collaborated with the Government of Egypt (GOE) represented by its different ministries, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) as well as the Private Sector to positively contribute to a sustainable socioeconomic development in Egypt through the use of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). In specific, the collaboration between UNDP and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) is considered one of the most successful partnerships which resulted in the formulation and implementation of a number of nationally executed ICT projects in Egypt. Many of these projects did spin-off successfully.

Today, the collaboration between UNDP and MCIT is geared towards improving the overall electronic readiness of the youth, women, people with special needs, and civil society organizations and increasing entrepreneurship, Education and Innovation, E- Health.

Click ​here for the slides.

Debate at TEKNOFO

11. April 2013

DemTech researcher Joseph Kiniry will debate Jacob Scjødt Nielsen at TEKNOFO

Saving Democracy from Technology
Joseph Kiniry, DTU Compute, guest professor at ITU

eVote – a choice for the future?
Project Manager Jacob Scjødt Nielsen, The Danish Board of Technology

Read the full talk descriptions.

DemTech Researchers Schürmann and Kiniry Participate in the Second Hearing on Bill L-132 in the Parliament?

13. March 2013

​http://www.ft.dk/webtv/video/20121/kou/tv.1594.aspx

• Here is the text of Joe's speech: Kiniry Speech
• Here is the text of Carsten's speech: Schürmann Speech

DemTech Press Release: Experiments in E-voting are a Good Idea

8. February 2013

In response to the discussion that took place in Parliament yesterday (7 February) at the first hearing on the evoting bill, DemTech has issued a press release re-emphasizing the main points of our response to the Ministry (høringssvar).

Version2 covers Joe's inaugural lecture "Saving Democracy from Technology"

4. February 2013

Version2, Denmark's main technology newspaper, ​covered Joe's inaugural lecture.

Prof. Kiniry's inaugural lecture "Saving Democracy from Technology"

1. February 2013

Joseph Kiniry's DTU inaugural Professor lecture, "Saving Democracy from Technology" is now available ​online. Apologies for the fixed camera and lack of questions. Joe is answering questions via ​Twitter and ​Facebook.

COST/ACTION Computational Social Choice

16. January 2013

Carsten Schürmann has joined the management committee of the COST/ACTION IC1205 on Computational Social Choice.

Read more here.

IT professionals warn the danes against electronic elections

16. January 2013

Following the Danish proposal for electronic elections, a number of experts have commented on the dangers ahead. Carsten Schürmann from DemTech comments on the importance for further trials.

Read more here.

DemTech Feedback to the Draft Law amending the Law on General Elections, Election Act

18. December 2012

Our formal feedback to the Ministry is now available here.

An Executive Summary of the State-of-Affairs in Computer-Based Voting in Denmark

18. December 2012

Joseph Kiniry has written a short summary of the timeline of evoting-related actions of the Danish government over the past few years.

​Draft Law amending the Law on General Elections, Election Act of Danish members of the European Parliament and the Law on Local Government Elections (Digital voting and counting)

16. November 2012

The proposed changes to election law in Denmark were published for public consultation on 16 November 2012. The DemTech project was formally requested to provide feedback. We will publish our feedback here in mid-December, 2012.

Report on technical dialogue on e-voting system in Denmark

11. October 2012

Following the requests of 12 municipalities in Denmark the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Interior have had technical dialogues with seven different economic operators, with regards to the coming elections in the municipalities in 2012.

Read more here.

DemTech on Twitter - ​#DemTechDK

11. October 2012

DemTech has gotten its very own ​Twitter account where we will post news about research and events in the world of electronic voting. Follow us on ​#DemTechDK.

More articles…

• Security Analysis of Scantegrity System
• The First DemTech Nordic-Baltic Workshop on Voter Verified Elections
• Talk: Security architectures for smartphones
• Talk: E-voting in Australia: Academics versus the Electoral Commissioners
• E-election to be tested in 13 municipalities
• E-elections in Denmark - how?
• External Advisory Board & Steering Committee
• Researchers met with the KMD election team
• Danish Technology Board E-elections Report
• Two new post-doctoral researchers
• Sweden experimenting with e-voting
• DemTech Kick-off Event
• SDG DemTech Update lunch talk

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