Profile
The global portal www.greekelections.com aims at promoting Greek elections, politics and cultural activity in general. It is the Digital Window for global access to Greek elections, a
significant step towards reinforcing the international image and participation of the country in the Society of Information and Knowledge.
GreekElections.com is an advanced and more sophisticated version of the popular greekelections.gr, which was successfully launched during the pre-electoral period of the 2000 National Elections,
promoting the views and activities of the candidates, as well as the polls and election results to thousands of visitors from all over the world. The pluralistic and independent greekelections.gr has
published several reviews on the Greek elections and also articles by politicians and candidates, information and articles from academic sources and the media.
The main aims of the www.greekelections.com are:
- to promote the Greek elections, policies and domestic political and cultural activity. It is the Digital Window, which provides global access to the Greek Elections, and political and cultural
events.
- to support the international profile and participation of Greece in the Information and Knowledge Society
- to become an important initiative to introduce the new content management model (DAPAP) into the emerging Info-Communications Industry in the 21st century .
The main objectives of www.greekelections.com are:
- To be a dynamic global portal which provides effective global access to information about the main political activities and changes in Greece.
- To be a useful road map for discovering political and cultural content about Greece.
- To be the main digital window in order to promote current political developments, political activity and political events in Greece.
- To introduce the scientifically pioneering and methodologically well-structured model (DAPAP) for developing successful digital content for global portals.
- To remain the first, international Portal on the most popular search engines (e.g. google.com, yahoo.com) in terms of quality and recognition and an essential companion to all Greeks worldwide.
GreekElections.com had usefully covered the 2002 municipal elections and has been updated for the national election on 7th March 2004, reinforcing its profile as a global portal and
concentrating the greatest part of its efforts on the digital promotion of the elections and political communication in general.
The Greekelections.com message is
"Effective Communication, Responsible Participation, Global Penetration and Reliable Information"
GreekElections.com offers the opportunity for all Greeks within and outside the country to get in touch with the electoral strategies of the municipality candidates, as well as articles and
reviews by politicians and scholars. It is a meeting point for all Greeks, a global gate between Greece and international developments. Finally, it targets the dynamic promotion of the democratic
spirit and the creative exchange of views in the political, economic and social environment of the Society of Information and Knowledge in the 21st Century.
GreekElections.com have been developed as a research project by the scientific team of the Info-Com Research Society (ICRS) coordinated and supervised by the editor of the Greek Politics
Journal (Dr. George Gantzias, Associate Professor of Cultural Management and New Technologies, University of Aegean) in collaboration with the British company Info-Communicator Ltd based in Surrey,
UK. The global portal has been developed subject to the main principles of the 'Dynamic Presentation, Navigation and Discovery of Content' (DAPAP) about content management.
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