e-participation case study: direct democracy portal "today i decide" by ms. nele leosk,...
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Today I Decide (TOM)
Nele Leoske-Governance Academy (eGA)
Skopje, November 30, 2007
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TOM - Government Initiative
● Main idea – to enhance public participation in political decision-making providing opportunity to propose and discuss new legislative initiatives via Internet
● Also- to enhance dialogue between citizens, public officials, etc
● Started in June, 2001● Administrated by State Chancellery● Promoted as Direct Democracy Portal
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TOM - Two modes of operation
● Policy documents presented for discussion by ministries (functioned just 2 months, from 2008 under e-participation portal again)
● Proposals submitted by people● Only registered users can submit
proposals and participate in discussions● Everybody can follow discussions
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Processing ideas● Idea is presented● 10 days for commenting, discussion● 3 days for editing● 3 days for secret voting
Only ideas getting more than half of votes in favour are considered further
● Ministry has 1 month for analysis and answer● Answer is posted on TOM
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TOM statistics
● 1140 ideas presented (64% voted in, 34 % voted out)
● 654 proposals sent to the ministries (89% answered: 6% possible implementation, 48% negative, 7% supportive)
● 6910 registered users
● 100-150 visits per day (up to 300 when mentioned elsewere, eg in blogs, forums, etc)
● 7 proposals applied
Introduction of summer time
Wireless internet signs
Estonian anthem downloadable from the Internet
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Visits to TOM
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New users of TOM (registered)
New users(monthly average in the given year)
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2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
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New ideas
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Positive sides of TOM● Possibility to rise political issues ● Obligation of state administration to respond● Communication between users (possibility to
form an idea together)● Communication with state administration● Everybody can follow proposals and
discussions
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Problems of TOM
● Many non-constructive proposals
● Passive discussions
● Low level of the idea author’s ivolvement (35% participate in later phases)
● Few votes
● Small number of active users
● No publicity, buzz
● Rejection of proposals by state administration on formal grounds
● Little dialogue between citizens and political decision makers
● Few ideas implemented
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Mobilising citizens
• Has to be advertised permanently in the Internet and other media
• a system of email or RSS notification linking authors and discussants is necessary to improve the quality and quantity of discussion of generated ideas
• database of ideas to signal previous attempts to address a problem and make it easier to mobilize users
• tracing the progress of the ideas once they have been delivered to the government
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Increasing legislative impact
• ideas should also be circulated to a wider network of interested parties, including parliamentary committees, political parties and NGOs
• connect users to outside sources of information to help the drafting and commenting of ideas (legislation, etc)
• Indication of the policy priorities of government ministries
• revise and resubmit ideas that have received a negative answer from the relevant government ministry