The TCGOV 2005 international conference on e-government was held at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano during March 2¿4, 2005. The conference was initiated by the working group ¿Towards Electronic Democracy¿ (TED) of the European Science Foundation and was jointly organized by the Free University ofBozen-Bolzano,theMunicipalityofBozen-Bolzano,theTEDWorkingGroup, and the IFIP Working Group 8.5. The conference addressed a large spectrum of issues that are relevant and have to be investigated for a successful transition from the traditional form of government to a new form known as e-government. The main focus was on the following topics: ¿ improving citizen participation and policy making (e-democracy) ¿ government application integration ¿ semantic Web technologies for e-government ¿ security aspects for e-government services Two sessions were dedicated to e-democracy, an emerging area within- government that seeks to enhance democratic processes and provide increased opportunities for individuals and communities to be involved in governmental decisions.Thecontributionsofthesetwosessionscovermorefundamentalresults and insights as well as experiences from di?erent countries. Another focus was on government application integration and the use of - mantic Web technologies, which are important technical aspects on the agenda of e-government research. Di?erent architectures for the integration and orch- tration of distributed services and processes were presented along with two case studies. Three papers about Semantic Web technologies discussed the use of ontologies in e-government.

e-Democracy: Improving Citizen Participation and Policy Making.- Using Weblogs to Support Local Democracy.- Web-Based Tools for Policy Evaluation.- Can Online Map-Based Applications Improve Citizen Participation?.- e-Democracy: Experiences from Different Countries.- Interactive Tools for e-Democracy: Examples from Switzerland.- "Public Budget Dialogue" - An Innovative Approach to E-Participation.- Enhancing e-Democracy Via Fiscal Transparency: A Discussion Based on China's Experience.- Political and Societal Implications.- Third Way e-Government: The Case for Local Devolution.- "Urban Versus Regional Divide: Comparing and Classifying Digital Divide".- e-Citizen: Why Waiting for the Governments?.- Security for e-Government Services.- A Zero Knowledge Proof for Subset Selection from a Family of Sets with Applications to Multiparty/Multicandidate Electronic Elections.- A Protocol for Anonymous and Accurate E-Polling.- Model Driven Security for Inter-organizational Workflows in e-Government.- Semantic Web Technologies for e-Government.- e-Government: A Legislative Ontology for the 'SIAP' Parliamentary Management System.- No (e-)Democracy Without (e-)Knowledge.- Towards a Semantically-Driven Software Engineering Environment for eGovernment.- Architectures for Government Application Integration.- Towards Requirements for a Reference Model for Process Orchestration in e-Government.- A Distributed Architecture for Supporting e-Government Cooperative Processes.- eGovernment Service Marketplace: Architecture and Implementation.- Case Studies for Government Application Integration.- Towards Building E-Government on the Grid.- Applying the ISO RM-ODP Standard in E-Government.- Decision Support Systems.- Quixote: Supporting Group Decisions Through the Web.- UNICAP:Efficient Decision Support for Academic Resource and Capacity Management.- A Methodology Framework for Calculating the Cost of e-Government Services.- Managerial and Financial Aspects of E-Government Projects.- Good Practice in e-Government: Management over Methods?.- Participatory Budget Formation Through the Web.- On the Transition to an Open Source Solution for Desktop Office Automation.- e-Procurement.- Public eProcurement in Action: Policies, Practices and Technologies.- An Integrated Approach in Healthcare e-Procurement: The Case-Study of the ASL of Viterbo.