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The market for online participation and deliberation in Europe is expected to grow to 300 Million Euros in the next five years, and the market for e-voting to 500 Million Euros.

Eight years ago, the independent American journalist Matt Taibbi outlined what he thought was the best use which journalists could be put to.

One has often lamented the fact that the Australian Labor Party decided to jettison the only politician in its midst who actually knew something about technology, namely Ed Husic, from its front bench, for solely political reasons.

StartCon, Australia’s biggest growth and start conference, has announced nominations for the 4th annual Australasian Startup Awards have officially opened, so nominate the best and brightest our local start up community and eco system has to offer.

A team from Deakin University is working with the Australian Electoral Commission to reduce waiting times for voters.

Britain's information commissioner Elizabeth Denham will seek a warrant to examine the databases and servers used by data analytics company Cambridge Analytica, the firm that is alleged to have used data of more than 50 million Facebook subscribers for targeting voters in the US presidential election.

A top-secret NSA report claims that Russian military intelligence carried out a cyber attack on a US voting software supplier and sent phishing emails to 100 local election officials shortly before the US presidential elections in 2016.

The Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) is claiming a “first of its kind in the world” new iPad app with the release of its Voters Voice app to assist people with communication difficulties to participate in elections.

The iVote electronic voting system used at the recent New South Wales election has been described as one of the most significant changes seen in the electoral process in the last 100 years.

Electronic voting is subject to ‘high costs and unacceptable security risks’, which clearly ameans hacking, according to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters and its 77 page report entitled the ‘Interim report on the inquiry into the conduct of the 2013 Federal Election’.