Editorial

摘要

In this second issue of Vol. 8 of International Journal of Electronic Governance, we are glad to accommodate a set of research papers along different topics from the journal's subject scope, as well as from different geographies across the IJEG international coverage. The first research paper, 'A medium-scale trial of Handivote' by Valcheva et al., reports on an electronic voting system utilising mobile phones and short text messages, tested in a field trial in the UK by a local community group to assess support vs. opposition to a planned building development. The authors elaborate on the procedures to issue voting credentials, the information given to voters and the ICT infrastructure required, as well as the user interfaces for setting up polls and presenting results to the public. At the same time, voter scrutiny mechanisms for ensuring vote integrity, as well as money and labour cost aspects of this voting scheme, are also discussed.