This week is again a week full of traveling and presenting.

This Monday I was in Berlin and giving a lecture on how to observe Electronic Voting at the German ZIF. There a quite international crowd (with the majority out of Switzerland) was doing a course on long-term observation of elections and it was my third time that I was to Berlin this year. It's always great to work with Irene Eich and her team at the ZIF.

On Tuesday I was back to Vienna where I was involved again in talks with student councils on e-voting. It was great to have such an informed discourse and to talk about possibilities, threats and other issues around e-voting - I think these talks help to build trust and understanding for the issues on both sides.

On Wednesday it was time to travel to Madrid to the Forum on the Future of Democracy from the Council of Europe, where I talked on the current status of e-voting in Austria. Thomas Buchsbaum presented the CADHE working group on e-democracy. Peter Michael Ziegler, colleague of Richard Sietmann at heise.de, reported today on the forum.

Yesterday evening I flew to Frankfurt to come to today's CAST Forum on "Elektronische Wahlen und Wahlgeräte" which was organized by Melanie Volkamer. Here I gave an introduction to the possibílities of e-voting including a statement that at some point in time we will have a global citizenship where it will be up to the citizen to decide where to vote for - i.e. living on the Seychelles and to vote for the Austrian parliament. Richard Sietmann reported yesterday on it here.

Tomorrow my travel week will come to an end and I will finally come back to Vienna ... but it feels great to meet so different crowds of people during one week.