Similarly, the Scottish Parliament e-petition is an early innovator.Scottish citizens can create electronic petitions or comments, or add his support to the existing e-petition - all in electronic form (www.scottish.parliament. Uk / e-petitions/index.htm).Scotland, Napier University and BT Scotland in 1999 jointly established the International Centre for electronic democracy, to develop and use advanced information and communication technologies to enhance and support the democratic decision-making process.Center's mission include:
1, the Administration and Congress to promote the global use of information and communication technology to enable citizens of representatives and support staff to work more efficiently.
2 proves that the technical help to improve the Government's openness and accessibility.
3 to encourage and help the public, voluntary organizations and businesses involved in government affairs through the use of technology.
In 2001, the European Commission launched the "interaction between political decision-making" (IPM) project to improve the European Union (EU) of the government.Through the website "Your Voice in Europe" (http://europa.eu.int/yourvoice), IPM collection and analysis of civic and business point of view, to assess the existing EU policies and consultations with citizens on the new scheme, aimed at promotingEU political decision-making transparency, comprehensiveness and efficiency, so that citizens in political decision-making processes play an active role.
Democracy in the global positioning
So far, most of the electronic democracy work has focused on direct-to-house-related interest groups, government agencies or domestic customers.Obviously, this applies to citizens of communication and participation.But the Internet knows no borders, there are signs of change has begun.
In 2001, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi launched the "Koizumi Cabinet Mail Magazine."This issue of the magazine by e-mail (e-zine) published weekly by the prime minister's office to explain his political orientation.Magazine now has 200 million subscribers.In celebration of the 100th, the magazine subscribers by 20 randomly selected to receive the Prime Minister personally met to discuss a wide range of issues.Although the e-zine is only released in Japan, but the plan is for the more strategic direction of e-democracy draw the map, and spread to other countries.
Canadian customers worldwide publicity to the political aspects of its public has made remarkable achievements (www.canada.gc.ca).The site directly convey to non-Canadians in Canada's views on various global issues, called the pioneer of the same site.Through the website of the Non-Canadian Forum, people can be further linked to the "Canada and the World", understand the wide range of content, from Canada's foreign policy (such as maintaining peace and anti-terrorism) until the country's humanitarian assistance to stand, arms control, scienceand technology.
Now, for the local citizens, activists, grassroots organizations and the use of a variety of powerful techniques (from the information portal to radical technology) of other persons or organizations are numerous international sites.Governmental entities who should learn from these early deployment, in order to better deal with domestic and foreign affairs, improve security and promote the democratic process.
Implementation of the plan the best time to e-democracy
The next decade, e-democracy program will begin to harvest the fruits of the long-awaited, but must be carefully planned and reasonable action as a precondition.First of all, as the digital era politicians, leaders should understand the importance of e-democracy.Second, leaders should find out why IT infrastructure is essential to achieving this vision.Government entities for investment in IT infrastructure, a number of reasons, electronic democracy is one of the main driving force.
Most leaders recognize that technology infrastructure is the foundation to achieve the Government's internal transformation, but also for providing services to citizens the tools.In addition, it also supports the field of electronic democracy, large-scale change.Now is the time, you should be online delivery of information and government services such ordinary work to more strategic changes in their work to promote democracy in the free world, theory and practice.