[liberationtech] Fwd: Democracy crowdsourcing in Estonia

[Eduardo Robles Elvira]

Hello Yosem:

I just wanted to say that this seems like an awesome initiative. For what I
know, Estonia has one of the most technologically advanced political
participation systems, where tens of thousands of people vote in general
elections via Internet with their electronic ids. I've been there and have
contact with estonian pirates and their electronic id cards are very easy
to use and everyone uses for these kind of things. I know some people don't
like e-id cards, in spain we're used to having national id cards  for
historical (Franco's regime) reasosns, and I must confess, it has quite big
advantages too.

Regards,


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>wrote:

> From: Liia Hänni <liia.hanni at gmail.com>
>
> I am glad to inform you, that yesterday the President of Estonia, Toomas
> Hendrik Ilves, presented to the Parliament a package of proposals intended
> to advance the functioning of democracy in our country. The proposals were
> elaborated by the civil society as a result of a co-creation
> (crowdsourcing) process, which took place during the previous three months.
>
>
> ** **
>
> The process started by opening an online platform www.rahvakogu.ee (so-called People’s Assambly) for crowdsourcing ideas and proposals on
> five topics, where public dissatisfaction with the present situations was
> obvious: the electoral system, competition between political parties and
> their internal democracy, financing of political parties, strengthening the
> role of civic society in politics between the elections, and politicization
> of public offices.****
>
> ** **
>
> The co-creation process combines modern communication tools with
> traditional face-to-face discussions. During the first stage (until the end
> of January 2013) nearly 2,000 proposals and comments were submitted,
> commented, supported or criticized online. During February and March 2013,
> analysts grouped the proposals and comments into bundles of different
> scenarios and provided an impact analysis. On 6 April 2013, a “deliberation
> day“ was held to select the most preferred scenarios at a public meeting.
> This event gathered 300 people, randomly selected to proportionally
> represent all (voting) age groups, genders, regions and nationalities. On 9
> April 2013, 16 proposals were presented to the Parliament by the President
> of the Republic of Estonia.****
>
> ** **
>
> The People’s Assembly is organized by volunteers from various civil
> society organizations. The member organizations of the  Estonian CS OGP
> Roundtable were actively involved in the process.  Several proposals
> presented to the Parliament intend to get open government in Estonia to the
> next, more advanced level.****
>
> ** **
>
> Kind regards and best wishes for the progress of OGP.****
>
> ** **
>
> Liia Hänni****
>
> Coordinator of the Estonian CS OGP Roundtable****
>
> +372 641 1313****
>
> +372 512 7316****
>
> liia at ega.ee ****
>
> www.ega.ee ****
>
>
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