PNYKA Project

Research and Development of Electronic Voting Systems based on Formal Methods of Risk Assessment and Management focusing on the drawing of Public Confidence

PNYKA system was the winner of eVoting Competition

On June 13th 2008, RA CTI submitted the "PNYKA" eVoting system (http://pnyka.cti.gr/) at the "eVoting Competition 2008" organized by the Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation (http://www.e-voting.cc/) sponsored by Internet Foundation Austria (IFA). The Competition targeted non-commercial, internet eVoting systems fully developed using open source tools and takes place for the first time in Europe.

According to the decision of a top class, international jury of experts published on July 14th 2008, PNYKA system is one of the three finalists. The other two finalist systems are developed by an austrian and a german team respectively.

The three systems were presented on 6 August 2008, in Bregenz, Austria, within the 3rd International Conference on eVoting (http://www.e-voting.cc/topics/conference2008/). Also, a eVoting process demonstration was scheduled followed by an open "Questions & Answers" session up to the jury of experts. After the completion of the evaluation process, the jury decided that PNYKA system was the winner of the competition.

More information on the competition is available at http://www.e-voting-competition.at/

A paper for the system PNYKA was presented at the International eGOV 2007 Conference:

The paper titled "Trust-Centered Approach for Building eVoting Systems" was presented at the International eGOV 2007 Conference (http://www.egov-society.org/), within the 18th Dexa Conference cluster (www.dexa.org), 3-7 September, in Regensburg, Germany.

Download the paper here.

Paper acceptance for PNYKA system by the eGOV 2008 International Conference :

The paper titled 'Experiences and Benefits from the Apllication of a Formal Risk Assessment Framework in the eVoting Domain' will be presented to International eGOV 2008 Conference (http://www.egov-society.org/), in Turin, Italy.

Download the paper here.

A paper for the system PNYKA was presented at the International PCI 2008 Conference.

The paper titled The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of an Internet-based eVoting System' was presented at 12th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics(http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/pci2008/).

Download the paper here.

A paper for the system PNYKA is to be presented the ICEGOV 2008 International Conference :

The paper titled 'A step-wise refinement approach for enhancing eVoting acceptance' is to be presented to the 2nd Int. Conf. on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2008) (http://www.icegov.org/) taking place on 1 - 4 of December in Cairo, Egypt.

Downloat the paper here.

PNYKA Source Code

The source code of the system PNYKA is available here

You can also download pre-built .war files, for easy deployment here