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ICT705 Data and System Integration - Assignment 1 Page 1 of 7

ICT705

Data and System Integration

Task 1

ATMC Semester 3, 2018
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Assessment and Submission Details

Marks: 20% of the Total Assessment for the Course

Due Date: 11:59pm Friday, 14th Dec 2018 (Week 5)

Submit your assignment to Blackboard Task 1. Please follow the submission instructions in
Blackboard.

The assignment will be marked out of a total of 100 marks and forms 20% of the total
assessment for the course. ALL assignments will be checked for plagiarism by SafeAssign
system provided by Blackboard automatically.

Refer to your Course Outline or the Course Web Site for a copy of the “Student Misconduct,
Plagiarism and Collusion” guidelines. Academic Integrity Information.

The assignment will be assessed according to the marking sheet. Late submission will be
penalised according to the policy in the course outline. Please note Saturday and Sunday are
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Background: eVoting

In 2013, there was a loss of ballot papers during the federal election. As a result, there has been
significant discussions and investigations about the incident. Several enquiries have been made
about the improvements to the electoral system through the use of technology that would reduce
the chance of this sort of incident happening again.

A report on the inquiry into the conduct of the 2013 federal election noted that “There can be little
disagreement with the idea that the electoral system needs to harness the technology available to it,
and there are many aspects of the electoral system where these reforms can be introduced,
including building capability in electronic support for voting” (Joint Standing Committee on Electoral
Matters, 2014, p. 1).

Prior to and subsequent of this incident, a wealth of scholarly articles has been written in respect to
electronic voting, including the benefits for government decision making, benefits to the society and
the challenges of implementing an eVoting system.

It is recommended that you undertake your own review of the cu
ent literature to gain insights into
designing an EIA for electronic voting.
References
Bouras, C., Katris, N. and Triantafillou, V XXXXXXXXXXAn electronic voting service to support decision-
making in local government, Telematics and Informatics, Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages XXXXXXXXXX.
Available at https:
doi.org/10.1016/S XXXXXXXXXX.
Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters (2014), Second interim report on the inquiry into the
conduct of the 2013 federal election: An assessment of electronic voting options, Canbe
a
Available at:
https:
www.aph.gov.au/~/media/02%20Parliamentary%20Business/24%20Committees/244%20Joi
nt%20Committees/JSCEM/2013%20election%202nd%20interim/Full%20report.pdf?la=en
Gibson, J. Paul & Lallet, Eric & Raffy, Jean-Luc XXXXXXXXXXEngineering a Distributed e-Voting System
Architecture: Meeting Critical Requirements XXXXXXXXXX1007/ XXXXXXXXXX9_6.
Australia Post XXXXXXXXXXeVoting – a new way to have our say, Insight Paper Available at:
https:
auspostenterprise.com.au/content/dam/corp/ent-gov/documents/eVoting-insights-
paper.pdf
News articles
https:
www.abc.net.au/news/ XXXXXXXXXX/senate-ballot-boxes-may-have-fallen-off-truck-
committee-finds/6395716
https:
www.cio.com.au/article/649941/cio XXXXXXXXXXani-paul-ing-australia/
https:
newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/if-it-aint-
oke-dont-fix-it-australia-should-stay-
away-electronic-voting
https:
doi.org/10.1016/S XXXXXXXXXX
https:
www.aph.gov.au/~/media/02%20Parliamentary%20Business/24%20Committees/244%20Joint%20Committees/JSCEM/2013%20election%202nd%20interim/Full%20report.pdf?la=en
https:
www.aph.gov.au/~/media/02%20Parliamentary%20Business/24%20Committees/244%20Joint%20Committees/JSCEM/2013%20election%202nd%20interim/Full%20report.pdf?la=en
https:
auspostenterprise.com.au/content/dam/corp/ent-gov/documents/eVoting-insights-paper.pdf
https:
auspostenterprise.com.au/content/dam/corp/ent-gov/documents/eVoting-insights-paper.pdf
https:
www.abc.net.au/news/ XXXXXXXXXX/senate-ballot-boxes-may-have-fallen-off-truck-committee-finds/6395716
https:
www.abc.net.au/news/ XXXXXXXXXX/senate-ballot-boxes-may-have-fallen-off-truck-committee-finds/6395716
https:
www.cio.com.au/article/649941/cio XXXXXXXXXXani-paul-ing-australia
https:
newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/if-it-aint-
oke-dont-fix-it-australia-should-stay-away-electronic-voting
https:
newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/if-it-aint-
oke-dont-fix-it-australia-should-stay-away-electronic-voting
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Assignment Task
You are to prepare a preliminary report for the Australian Federal Government describing
the benefits of an Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture (EIA RA) for
developing a national eVoting system. Attention should be made to an information centric
design and how to best achieve this.

The intended audience for this report are government officials who may have knowledge of
the electoral system but limited computing knowledge.

Your report should follow the following template:
Executive Summary
Table of Contents
Table of Figures
Table of Tables (if needed)
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture
Discuss the benefits an EIA RA approach can provide to guide development of an eVoting
system. This discussion should expand on at least three of the identified benefits and should
include at least one diagram providing an overview of the proposed system.
3.0 Information Management and Integration
The disparate nature of entities and systems within government, the volume of structured
and unstructured data, and the sensitivity of that data pose challenges for data
management and integration.
You are to describe several of these challenges and propose strategies to overcome them.
4.0 Conclusion
5.0 Recommendations
Bibliography
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Report Format
Your report should be no less than 2,000 words and it would be best to be no longer than
3,000 words.
The report must be formatted using the following guidelines:
• Paragraph text 12-point Cali
i single line spacing
• Headings Arial in an appropriate type size
• Margins 2.5cm on all sides
• Title Page is not to contain headers, footers, or page numbering
• Header is to display the Report Title (excluding the title page)
• Footer to display your name and the page number (excluding the title page)
• Title Page – Must not contain headers or footers. Include your name as the report’s
author.
• Page numbering
o Executive summary to the last page of Table of Figures / Table of Tables to use
oman numerals (i, ii, iii, iv)
o Introduction and onwards to use conventional numerals (1, 2, 3, 4) starting at
page 1 from the introduction
• The report is to be created as a single Microsoft Word document (version 2007, 2010,
2013, 2016, or Office 365). No other format is acceptable and doing so will result in
the deduction of marks.
• The report must use the built-in features of Microsoft Word to create page numbers,
section numbers, citations, cross referencing of sections, figures and tables, table of
contents, table of figures, table of tables, and bibliography.
Please follow the conventions detailed in:
Summers, J. & Smith, B., 2014, Communication Skills Handbook, 4th Ed, Wiley, Australia.
Referencing
The report is to include (at least 5) appropriate references and these references should follow
the Harvard method of referencing. Note that ALL references should be from journal articles,
conference papers, technical papers or a recognized expert in the field. DO NOT use Wikipedia
as a reference. The use of unqualified references will result in the deduction of marks.
Assignment Return and Release of Grades
Assignment grades will be available on the blackboard in two weeks after the submission. An
electronic assignment marking sheet will be available at this time. Where an assignment is
undergoing investigation for alleged plagiarism or collusion the grade for the assignment and
the assignment will be withheld until the investigation has concluded.
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Assignment Advice
1. The task of developing an EIA for eVoting would in practice would take a team of IT
professionals hundreds of hours to complete. It is acknowledged that your time is
constrained to several weeks and approx. 20 hrs work on this assignment, and as such
this assignment is not so much about completing it but seeing how far you get.
2. Whole text books have been dedicated to the topic of EIA RA, thus in your discussion of
EIA RA you will need firstly to be succinct, and secondly to be selective in describing
aspects of EIA RA significant to an eVoting system.
3. It is not expected that you become an expert in eVoting, but it is expected that you
demonstrate your research into the field as it pertains to EIA
4. As this is a master’s level course, you will be graded on your ability to put forward an
argument supported by scholarly articles. Simply regurgitating the text book is not
sufficient.
5. There is no co
ect answer and it is expected that students’ answers will vary greatly, thus
there is little chance of accidental plagiarism.
6. Ensure that you clearly understand the requirements for the assignment – what must be
done and what are the deliverables.
7. If you do not understand any of the assignment requirements – Please ASK your tutor.
8. Each time you work on any aspect of the assignment reread the assignment requirements
to ensure that what is required is clearly understood.
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Appendix A

Marking Sheet for ATMC ICT XXXXXXXXXXS1 Assignment 1

Student name:
Student ID:
Items
Maximum
Marks
Marks
Obtained
Executive Summary 5
Introduction 5
An Enterprise Information Architecture for eVoting 35
Information Management and Integration 25
Conclusion 5
Recommendations 5
Report formatting (font, header and footer, table of
content, numbering, referencing, etc.)
5

Professional communication (co
ect spelling, grammar,
formal business language used)
5

Scholarly discussion (arguments supported by
eferences)
10

Total Marks: 100
Percentage of Course Total: 20%
OVERALL COMMENTS:

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Kuldeep · Accepted Answer

zEnterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture 
Student Name
University Name
Unit Name
Unit Code
Executive Summary
The main aim of this report is to develop an electronic voting system to hold free and fair elections in Australia. The country encountered many irregularities during the voting process and recently lost 1,360 votes in the 2013 federal elections. The government later ordered the committee to submit a report after the incident. The committee then proposed the development of a system that would effectively facilitate the voting process. The electronic voting system became an option, and only the infrastructure that relied on was vulnerable. Our project aims to address the issue of electronic voting by developing security systems using encryption algorithms and following enterprise information architecture.
Keywords: Enterprise Information Architecture, Electronic voting, Encryption, Information Management Data sensitivity, Reference Architecture, e-Voting systems, e-voting system designing
Contents
1.0 Introduction	1
2.0 Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture (EIA RA)	2
2.1 Definition	2
2.2 EIA Concept	2
2.3 Enterprise Information Architecture Principles	3
2.3.1 EIA Goal	3
2.3.2 EIA Characteristics	4
2.4 Benefits of EIA RA Approach in Guiding the Development of the e-Voting System	4
2.5 The architecture of the proposed e-Voting system	6
3.0 Information Management and Integration	7
3.1 Nature of entities and systems within government	7
3.2 The volume of structured and unstructured data	9
3.4 Data sensitivity and challenges	9
3.5 Challenges in data management and strategies overcome the challenges	10
4.0 Conclusion	11
5.0 Recommendation	12
EIA RA
EIA RA
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Student’s Name									i
Table of Figures
Figure 1: Enterprise Architecture Layers …………………………………………………………………………..3
Figure 2: Fig 2: EIA RA...................................................................……………………………....4
Figure 3: Conceptual Level Overview…………………………………………………………………………….…..5
Figure 4: Logical View of the EIA Reference Architecture…………………………………………………..6
Figure 5: Registration Scenario……………………………………………………………………………….………….9 
Figure 6: Fig 6: Personal Data upload scenario…………………………………………………………………10
Figure 7: Proposed system architecture…………………………………………………………………………..11
1.0 Introduction
Voting is a right that entitles every citizen of a sovereign state. This is the process by which people choose to represent them in the government. Voting requires many processes from voter registration to the statistical process. Therefore, these phases involve many processes that are sometimes very complex and complex. The traditional voting system is a widely used system in which manual materials are carried out purely throughout the voting process - for example, using ballot boxes, ballots and polling stations. This type of voting can cope with tough challenges, including ballot box loss, voting manipulation, exaggerating votes, and bias in the statistical process.
The use of an electronic voting system can eliminate the challenges of traditional voting systems. The electronic voting system is the process of automating the entire voting process. The ballot box lost in the 2013 federal election can be said to be a sentence in the past. For example, in developing countries, the case of election misconduct is a ten-year sequence. Most African countries are hampered by this threat, which has led to frequent post-election violence, as it did in Kenya in 2007.
In the events that occurred during the 2013 federal elections, after the ballot box was lost, the government entrusted the responsibility to a committee that investigated the matter and proposed a long-term resolution. The government needs a mechanism to automate the electoral process. The Internet can be said to be a rich resource that, if used properly, can be used to implement an electoral voting system. In this article, I will discuss the use of the Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture (EIA RA) and its contribution to the design of election voting. 
2.0 Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture (EIA RA)
2.1 Definition
Fig 1: Enterprise Architecture Layers
An enterprise information architecture can be defined as part of an enterprise architecture with a set of guidelines, principles, and models that are designed to more effectively and securely describe the current, future, and ways in which data and information are shared. As it has also been pointed out that earlier, elections are a process that is easily affected, and as long as there is mistrust and manipulation in the process, it will shake a country. The traditional voting system has shown this problem (Weber, 2014). Therefore, the need to develop an online voting system is critical. The need to implement EIA guidelines in this project remains the best practice to ensure data integrity is improved. Here, data integrity means efficient processing of the voting process (Bouras, Katris and Triantafillou, 2003). 
Fig 2: EIA RA
2.2 EIA Concept
As part of the enterprise architecture, EIA is designed to provide the appropriate functionality to achieve effective information sharing through its defined principles. Environmental impact assessments are information-centric and focus more on who and who should receive specific information. This can be restored when implemented in an electronic voting system. EIA ensures that the data transfer channel is secure and that useful information is available from the relevant data components (UNSW Newsroom, 2018).
Fig 3: Conceptual Level Overview
The enterprise architecture has three pillars: enterprise information architecture EIA, enterprise technology architecture ETA, and enterprise business architecture EBA. Each of the three perspectives focuses on data abstraction and specificity. The abstract base levels of EIA deployment are logic, concepts, and implementation. EIA defines how an organization or any business entity can effectively utilize its available data, and enhances data security and enhances its content-based information to ensure credibility of the data it creates (Auspostenterprise.com.au, 2017).  
Fig 4: Logical View of the EIA Reference Architecture
2.3 Enterprise Information Architecture Principles
EIA begins with a high-level organizational definition and description that defines standards for data across the business. The main goals of EIA are agility, consistency and architecture. The key is metadata, supplemented by models to achieve goals. Metadata also provides other levels of data abstraction that help simplify complexity, enhance understanding through visual representations,

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