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Decision-making tools of e-democracy are meant for co-participation,
political decision-making and/or deliberation between citizens. elektronske
demokracije so namenjena soodločanju oz. iskanju soglasja državljanov. We can
classify in this section e-voting/e-elections,
e-referendum and government e-meetings.
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E-Voting/e-Elections
E-Voting (or) e-Elections are used for selecting political
representatives and public servants via internet/world wide web. They are
mostly selected for a defined period of time. This tool includes extra
mechanisms for online registration of voters. Present voting systems aren't
changed radically - standard 'paper-voting' is only exchanged with electronic (internet).
Web-Links:
Web-site of e-Elections in
Estonia (februar 2007)
Project
CyberVote (e-volitve v EU)
Literature:
How did Estonia e-vote?
Estonia first country with e-Elections (article)
Ustavno-pravni in politološki vidiki uvajanja e-volitev v
Republiki Sloveniji (legal study in Slovenian language, DOC file)
E-referendum
Electronic referendum is used for direct e-participation of
citizens in the decision-making process (direct democracy). The main goal of
this tool is to offer citizens a possibility for mass-expression of their
opinion about a question of public interest or public solution that should be
carried out by public authority. Referendums can be consultative so the main
authority is under no pressure to put the results into final solutions (or
vice-versa - results can also be compulsory).
Web-links:
E-referendum/e-voting
in Genoa
Government
e-meetings
E-Meeting of government or one of it's bodies means that all materials of the
meeting are posted and available over the internet. All adjustments of
documents, discussions about papers and decisions that are made are made
available on the internet. Communication between involved subjects is also
possible electronically over the internet so they can publish their remarks and
observations about documents or change the agenda that has been set. This can
be the basis for the final decision making. Mostly the materials are already publicly
available while they're being handled by the government.
Web-links:
Government of Republic of Slovenia
– documents that are being currently handled
Literature:
E-meetings
of the Government of Republic of Slovenia (presentation on the web-site
SRC.si)
Source:
Trechsel, Alexander H. / Kies, Raphael / Mendez, Fernando / Schmitter, Philippe
C. (2003). Evaluation
of the use of new technologies in order to facilitate democracy in Europe:
e-democratizing the parliaments and parties of Europe (pdf, 482 KB). Geneve
- Research and Documentation Centre on Direct Democracy, 2004.
Arranged by Ph. D. Andrej A. Lukšič and Simon Delakorda, M.A. candidate
Translation
by Jernej Prodnik. Feel free to contact me if you find this translation very
poor.
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