The first issue of our Modern Democracy Magazine in 2010 is out. We are very happy to invite you to reading interesting articles about E-Democracy in Developing Countries, an insight report on the Norwegian E-Voting Pilot taking place in 2011, a guest contribution from IFES on challenges and opportunities for technologies in elections in the Philippines and finally we would like to steer your attention to our Pocket Guide for the EVOTE 2010 in July in Bregenz.
Apart from that we have a short report on new videos covering electronic democracy and an updated version of our conference schedule.

This issue of the Modern Democracy Magazine marks the beginning of an interesting year regarding the development of Modern Democracy. In Summer, experts from academia, government and business will gather to discuss the latest developments and trends as well as challenges of the Modern Democracy in Bregenz @EVOTE2010.

If you have any comments, feedback or would like to contribute to our next Modern Democracy Magazine let us know before September 1st @ modern-democracy@e-voting.cc and follow us on twitter: twitter.com/MoDemCC
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The second issue of the Modern Democracy Magazine featured a special map of electronic voting in the center. This map is now available for download.

This map provides a global overview of the use of electronic democracy. The countries are clustered according to the status and quality of usage:
- no E-voting
- Planning E-Voting, trials or non-legally binding elections have already been in place
- Successful legally binding electronic voting with voting machines
- Successful legally binding Internet voting
- Successful legally binding internet and electronic voting with voting machines
- Countries that stopped electronic voting with voting machines.

You can download the map here.
If you use the map, we kindly ask you to cite it as followed:
E-Voting.CC (Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation) (2009): Map of Electronic Democracy. In: Modern Democracy (2)/1. pp.8-9. URL: http://www.e-voting.cc/files/e-voting-map-2010

We are very happy to be able to present you the new issue of Modern Democracy, some of you already found it in their mailbox. This second magazine is an important cornerstone for electronic democracy in general and the Competence Center, in specific.

In May 2009, and for the first time in any Austrian Election, voters in the Austrian Federation of Students’ election were able to cast their votes via the Internet and in October 2009, Estonians could vote via Internet for their local parliaments. It was the fifth election with an electronic voting channel in Estonia and established with more than 100.000 E-Voters a new international remarkable benchmark. This clearly indicates the path of Modern Democracy and we invite to join us in discussing, analyzing and developing the future of democracy in this issue of Modern Democracy.

The Modern Democracy Magazine launched at the beginning of 2009 and the first issue was an overwhelming success; we are very pleased with your response and are proud that we now have 2,000 subscribers worldwide with membership growing all the time.
The current issue provides you with a deeper look into Election Observation of Modern Democracy, you can read an on-site experience report about the development and implementation of the German voting navigator and much more.
We hope you enjoy reading this issue of Modern Democracy and we are looking forward to your feedback, comments and suggestion at modern-democracy@e-voting.cc.
Also if you have any question or would like to contribute to the next issue on „E-Democracy in developing countries“ with an article or short news please don’t hesitate to contact me by e-mail or phone.

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Here it is: We proudly present Modern Democracy - The Electronic Voting and Participation Magazine, the new bi-annual publication brought to you by E-Voting.CC.

In this dual-media (on paper and as an electronic source) magazine we discuss the developments around our main focus subjects - e-participation and e-voting like an interview with a campaign manager of Obama's presidential race or the newly adopted Council of Europe E-Democracy recommendation.

Read more in this brand new magazine here and ensure your free subscription with a short e-mail including your affiliation and postal address to modern-democracy@e-voting.cc.