e-participation and transparency in the decision making process
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e-participation and transparency in the decision making process Rauna Nerelli Ministry of Justice, Finland
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e-participation and transparency in the decision making process. Rauna Nerelli Ministry of Justice, Finland. National E-participation Environment. Part of Action Programme on eServices and eDemocracy ( SADe ) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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e-participation and transparency in the decision making process
Rauna NerelliMinistry of Justice, Finland
National E-participation Environment
Part of Action Programme on eServices and eDemocracy (SADe) Enhances and enables dialogue and interaction between citizens, NGOs, politicians and public servants Improves e-participation possibilities at local and national level free of chargeMinistry of Justice organises training on e-democracy
www.demokratia.fi
Open Government Partnership
Finland joined the international program in 2013
Currently implementing the first national action plan
The cross-cutting theme of the plan is citizen’s participation
Four working-areas: Open Procedures, Clear Language, Open Knowledge and Government as an enabler
Unique in Finland: Campaign for clear and more understandable language at public sector in 2014
http://www.opengovpartnership.org/country/finland
Services for e-participation
www.otakantaa.fi, a channel for participation and interaction open to all
www.kansalaisaloite.fi, a system for the electronic collection of signatures for citizens’ initiatives
www.kuntalaisaloite.fi, a system for the electronic collection of signatures for initiatives to municipal authorities
www.lausuntopalvelu.fi, a service for responding electronically to official requests for comments
Otakantaa – ”Have your say”
Ministries, municipalities, institutes, NGOs and citizens can open discussions on a certain topic
Drafting of laws, planning strategies and programmes, evaluation of services and policies, mapping citizens’ needs and ideas
Several participation tools: discussion forum, chat, web questionnaire, poll
E-participation can be linked to activities IRL, e.g. seminars or meetings
Marketing of the participation projects essential
Citizens’ initiative
New tool for direct democracy
Enables a minimum of 50,000 Finnish citizens of voting age to submit an initiative to the Parliament of Finland to enact an act
50,000 electronic and/or paper signatures, 6 months for collecting them
A bill or a proposal to start drafting legislation
6 initiatives have gathered more than 50,000 signatures
Audited by Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority
Users’ names are not visible to the public
E-participation for youth
The further development of the young people’s online democracy service aloitekanava.fi
In co-operation with the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Youth information and counselling centre Koordinaatti
Children, youth and NGOs taking part in the planning process in workshops and online
Youth can submit initiatives or present ideas for the municipality, school or NGO
To be developed in 2014
Data protection
JHS 190 (previously JHS 129) guidelines for planning and developing public web services
Privacy policy published in all services
Strong electronic identification (optional in some services)
Users can decide if they want to show their support openly in municipal initiatives
User information between different initiatives can not be linked in citizens’ initiatives as personal identification number is encrypted separately on each initiative
Key benefits of e-democracy services
Cost-effective, open
Reaching larger groups of stakeholders
Quality and effectiveness of drafting increases
Tools and methods support variety of participation methods
Participation with less time-bound or physical limits
Increased service level, knowledge and interaction
Legitimacy and increased trust in the society
Contact information
[email protected]: @Nerelli
www.demokratia.fihttp://sadepalvelut.fi/en/facebook.com/otakantaa
