This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the TED (Towards Electronic Democracy) Conference on E-Government, TCGOV 2005, held in Bolzano, Italy in March 2005.

The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on e-democracy: improving citizen participation and policy making, e-democracy: experiences from different countires, political and societal implications, security for e-government services, semantic Web technologies, architectures for government application integration, case studies for government application integration, decision support systems, managerial and financial aspects of e-government projects, and e-procurement.

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