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Ivar Tallo
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Research by e-Democracy Center of the University
of Geneva from 2005 … Estonia and Netherlands
on the bottom of when evaluating the
Parliamentary Web-pages and on the top when
checking the email responsiveness of MPs …
How many MPs have logged on into their
Parliamentary accounts?
Skype me…. “Sorry this is her assistant …”
Geneva
15 October 2007
Percentage of e-declarations
submitted to the tax board
100%
80%
74%
60%
59%
40%
20%
0%
82%
36%
9%
2000
21%
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
e-deklaratsioone
Geneva
15 October 2007
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A so called complex or
integrated e-service ….
◦ 18 data requests between
5 information systems +
calculation = 7 documents
in real life = 3 minutes
data input +1 mouse click
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Geneva
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N of applicants in
N of e-applicants
Percentage from total claims
22 271
1572
7%
A killer application … or not really?
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* data for 2004
Geneva
15 October 2007
COOL!
In March 2007 Estonia had the first
parliamentary elections where
people could cast their vote over Internet!
Geneva
15 October 2007
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Geneva
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Nice web-sites do not create e-Parliament
Distributing computers to MPs does not create eParliament
Increased transparency is necessary precondition
from one hand of all successful ICT applications
and for ensuring the participation, on the other
hand
Deployment of ICT in Parliament has to go hand
in hand with building information society in
general
Done well, e-parliament helps with better
decision making and better communications
Geneva
15 October 2007
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The greatest barriers are not in technology, in
administration, or in policy. It is neither the lack
of the good will. It is just who we are …
We are much more conservatives in our everyday
habits than we like to think!
We are much less informed as society than we
like to think!
It should be recognised in the policy design
We need a lot of …
◦ ……. PR to get awareness …
◦ ……. training to know how …
◦ ……. time to become comfortable ….
…. to start using the new technologies
Geneva
15 October 2007
Ivar.Tallo@unitar.org