http://www.robert.krimmer.at/ Based in Warsaw, Poland Robert Krimmer Robert Krimmer 2010-08-26T10:38:02Z en hourly 1 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.robert.krimmer.at/static/icon.gif http://www.robert.krimmer.at/ http://www.robert.krimmer.at/stories/51163/
My successor Manuel Kripp will take over now and I'm ready now for my new challenge!

Looking forward to this and I'll keep you posted how it's moving forward.

Thanks to everybody who supported me in the past!]]> Robert Krimmer <a href="http://www.robert.krimmer.at/topics/News">News</a> Copyright © 2010 Robert Krimmer 2010-07-30T15:39:00Z http://www.robert.krimmer.at/stories/40686/
Now you can vote for me at http://www.politicsonline.com/content/main/specialreports/2009/top10_2009/vote.asp

please do so, if you want to support my work!]]> Robert Krimmer <a href="http://www.robert.krimmer.at/topics/Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a> Copyright © 2009 Robert Krimmer 2009-07-14T19:52:00Z http://www.robert.krimmer.at/stories/39203/
In the first Austrian election with an E-Voting channel, 2.161 students participated!

Now the next steps are coming up:

1.) Updating the paper-based voting directory with the used voting rights of the e-voters

2.) Have the voting directories printed

3.) Start the paper-based election and

finally

4.) count the results on Thursday, 28th of May!

So a lot of work and an experience of a lifetime lies before me and I'm looking forward to it ...]]> Robert Krimmer <a href="http://www.robert.krimmer.at/topics/News">News</a> Copyright © 2009 Robert Krimmer 2009-05-22T16:44:00Z http://www.robert.krimmer.at/stories/39074/
see the e-learning tool for yourself how the process works.

The first students have already voted, and I'm really happy that finally this project that I've been working on for so long became reality ...]]> Robert Krimmer <a href="http://www.robert.krimmer.at/topics/News">News</a> Copyright © 2009 Robert Krimmer 2009-05-18T07:57:00Z http://www.robert.krimmer.at/stories/38078/
All students can check for themselves using the Citizen Card at https://wahlberechtigung.oeh-wahl.gv.at/votingrights/]]> Robert Krimmer <a href="http://www.robert.krimmer.at/topics/News">News</a> Copyright © 2009 Robert Krimmer 2009-04-23T11:15:00Z http://www.robert.krimmer.at/stories/37422/

Today I'm invited to present the e-voting project in the monday talk of the Austrian Magazine DerStandard in the House of Music in the first district in Vienna.

It will be a very interesting and hefty debate with

Prof. Funk (Vienna University)
Prof. Purgathofer (Technical University Vienna)
Samir Al Mobayyed (Student Union)
and myself ...

come and hear for yourself:

Haus der Musik, Seilerstätte 30, A-1010 Vienna
30th March 2009, 19.30]]> Robert Krimmer <a href="http://www.robert.krimmer.at/topics/News">News</a> Copyright © 2009 Robert Krimmer 2009-03-29T22:22:00Z http://www.robert.krimmer.at/stories/36740/
On 1st of February 2001 Dr. Graf, member of the freedom party, made the application to the parliament that e-voting should be introduced in the student union.

Now in 2009 he wants to get rid of it and makes a new application to the parliament where he demands to stopp e-voting for the student union elections in May 2009.

Philipp Aichinger reported about this in today's "Die Presse" on page 3.
Read for yourself :-)]]> Robert Krimmer <a href="http://www.robert.krimmer.at/topics/News">News</a> Copyright © 2009 Robert Krimmer 2009-03-11T13:40:00Z http://www.robert.krimmer.at/stories/36547/
As this point and other topics around e-voting intensify the Ministry for Science and Research who oversees the project on E-Voting for the Student Union has launched an information campaign. See below for two advertisements which have appeared in the press over the past days.


A student in a tent in the amazonas wanting to e-vote



And then also last week the official website was launched - see below:

]]> Robert Krimmer <a href="http://www.robert.krimmer.at/topics/News">News</a> Copyright © 2009 Robert Krimmer 2009-03-05T10:05:00Z http://www.robert.krimmer.at/stories/35980/
Comments can be made until 26th of february 2009.

The main points are:

Paper based voting is to be held from 26th to 28th of May 2009.

Internet based voting is to be held from 18th to 22nd of May 2009.

Further the decree regulates the amount of mandates the Bundesvertretung (national body of the student union) holds at least 78 mandates.

See more here.

Read it also in the RIS here.]]> Robert Krimmer <a href="http://www.robert.krimmer.at/topics/News">News</a> Copyright © 2009 Robert Krimmer 2009-02-10T11:41:00Z http://www.robert.krimmer.at/stories/35667/
Read more here.]]> Robert Krimmer <a href="http://www.robert.krimmer.at/topics/News">News</a> Copyright © 2009 Robert Krimmer 2009-01-30T17:39:00Z http://www.robert.krimmer.at/stories/33892/
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I will post how the enquete went!]]> Robert Krimmer <a href="http://www.robert.krimmer.at/topics/News">News</a> Copyright © 2008 Robert Krimmer 2008-12-03T01:17:00Z http://www.robert.krimmer.at/stories/32211/

Yesterday I gave a short half-hour talk on E-Voting at the Ministry for Education during their open-door-policy.

Not a lot of people attended but it was quite nice to have interactivity with the attendants of the talk.

I hope I can do this again soon!]]> Robert Krimmer <a href="http://www.robert.krimmer.at/topics/News">News</a> Copyright © 2008 Robert Krimmer 2008-10-26T23:11:00Z http://www.robert.krimmer.at/stories/32131/


Carl-Markus Piswanger wrote an interesting article in the Austrian magazine "Monitor" about elections in general and their electronic support. Read for yourself (PDF).]]> Robert Krimmer <a href="http://www.robert.krimmer.at/topics/Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a> Copyright © 2008 Robert Krimmer 2008-10-24T07:17:00Z http://www.robert.krimmer.at/stories/32089/
Overall we see constructive reactions from the side of the universities deans/management bodies (who have to support the student council elections) and on the other hand very intense and in-depth discussions of the topic e-voting by the representatives of the student councils. Often we get answers like "we don't think anything will happen, but we don't trust the system, ...".

Back in 2000 I was on the other side, when we first discussed the introduction of e-voting for the student council with the ministry. I was then a member of the management body of the student council at Vienna University of Economics, and we thought that this voting channel provided the best solution to integrate students who couldn't participate in the student council elections otherwise.

Today I'm glad that the members of the student councils are very critical about electronic voting. It allows for a debate and a discourse on a level, which I haven't seen come quite close in other projects or countries where E-Voting was discussed.

While it is not always easy to provide answers to questions which have been answered by myself long before, it is clear that this discourse is crucial for a possible success of the project. It is important to hear, to discuss and also to address the issues raised by discussants who are not as confident as I was back in 2000 and still am that electronic voting via the Internet provides a lot of chances and provides value added to democracy in the end.

For me it is clear that this will be a though job. But I think that this project and especially the discourse about it will be so important for any further progress around forms of electronic support of elections in Austria - not only on the Student Council level but also for other pressure groups, company boards or even elections to political representative bodies.

I'm proud that I can be part of this process at this early stage!]]> Robert Krimmer <a href="http://www.robert.krimmer.at/topics/Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a> Copyright © 2008 Robert Krimmer 2008-10-22T20:43:00Z Search this site: q http://www.robert.krimmer.at/search