%0 Conference Paper %B Proceedings 9th European Conference on Information Systems-ECIS 2001, Bled, Slovenia , Vol. 2 %D 2001 %T An Electronic Polling Service to support Public Awareness using Web Technologies %A Christos Bouras %A Vasilis Triantafillou %A N Katris %X 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. %B Proceedings 9th European Conference on Information Systems-ECIS 2001, Bled, Slovenia , Vol. 2 %P 935 - 946 %8 27 - 29 June %G eng