TY - CONF T1 - An Electronic Polling Service to support Public Awareness using Web Technologies T2 - Proceedings 9th European Conference on Information Systems-ECIS 2001, Bled, Slovenia , Vol. 2 Y1 - 2001 A1 - Christos Bouras A1 - Vasilis Triantafillou A1 - N Katris AB - This paper presents a Web-based, database-oriented application called “Electronic Polling”, a smart way to support voting on common subjects in which all people of a Local Authority are interested. The systems services were planned and implemented to be easily expandable. The application is based on state-of-the-art software platform, integrating WWW and database. The system aims to become a pilot in future efforts relative with “on line Democracy”. The system provides the capability to create a poll, view the subject and participate to the voting procedure. Only authorised users can participate to use the system to vote or create a poll but all users can view results from previous voting procedures. JF - Proceedings 9th European Conference on Information Systems-ECIS 2001, Bled, Slovenia , Vol. 2 ER -