The EDem10 focuses on these different areas:

• Transparency & Communication (freedom of information, free information access, openness, information sharing, blogging, micro-blogging, social networks, data visualization, eLearning, empowering,
• Participation & Collaboration (innovation malls, innovation communities, bottom up, top down, social networks, engagement and accountability, collaborative culture, collaboration between C2C, G2C.
• Architecture, Concepts & Effects (access and openness, user generated content, peer production, network effects, power laws, long tail, harnessing the power of the crowd, crowd sourcing, social web, semantic web.
• Different Fields: open government initiatives, eDemocracy, eParticipation, eVoting.
• Different Disciplines: law, social science, computer science, political science, psychology, sociology.
• Research Methods

On primary aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners. We would like to invite individuals from academic, applied and practitioner backgrounds as well as public administration offices, public bodies, NGO/NPOs, education institutions and independent organisations to submit their contributions into one of the 6 categories:
1. finished research
2. ongoing research
3. finished projects
4. ongoing projects
5. workshops
6. PhD colloquium submission.