European Cities Platform for Online Transaction Services: The EURO-CITI Project

In this paper the European Cities Platform for Online Transaction Services (EURO-CITI) project is presented. The EURO-CITI project aims to specify, develop and demonstrate a common architecture and related services targeting the public sector. The proposed services include tele-voting, electronic submission of forms and tele-consulting. Tele-voting will be used for opinion polls petitions that can be initiated by both the local authorities and citizens aiming to reinforce the concept of direct democracy. The proposed architecture will integrate and where appropriate enhance key technologies for security, authentication/authorisation, data description, user-centered interfaces, etc. The resulting EURO-CITI platform will be dynamically re-configurable to allow for example simultaneous voting on the same problem at geographically distributed areas. The trials will be supported by a generic methodology for process re-engineering and will take place in three major European cities, namely Athens, Barcelona and the London Borough of Brent.