Proceedings of the 1st Conference on "Electronic Democracy: Information Society and Citizen's rights
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E-government principles are based on the assumption that different government
agencies are willing to cooperate and share findings through a network infrastructure. When
government agencies refuse to cooperate and share information due to conflicts, then novel
mediation mechanisms are needed. We introduce a negotiation-based sharing system called
SCENS: Secure Content Exchange Negotiation System currently being developed at
Dartmouth College with the assistance of many interdisciplinary experts. SCENS is a multilayer
scaleable system that ensure safety of transactions through various security mechanisms.
It is based on a metadata description of heterogeneous information and applies to many
different domains. Through negotiation, government users would reach agreement on the
conditions of sharing, especially when the information is sensitive and distributed.
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