Mr Remmert is Head of the Council of Europe’s Project “Good Governance in the Information Society” (2005-2007). The aim of this project is to serve as a platform for the exchange of emerging good practice on e-democracy in Council of Europe member states, based, inter alia, on the recent Recommendations of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers on e-governance (Rec. (2004)15) and on e-voting (Rec. (2004)11), and to prepare the Council’s contribution to the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). He joined the Council of Europe in 1994 and has been working in the field of social cohesion, then on democratic institutions. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Freiburg/Germany, and was a university lecturer from 1990-1993.