Scenarios for 2010
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

• The perspective of the citizen: why focus on the e- ?
• E-Voting and e-Citizenship within e-Government environments
• Scenarios for 2010
• Elements for a roadmap in e-Democracy
• EVE: supporting e-Democracy evolution in Europe
• Conclusions
• Information on current activities of EVE
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

The perspective of the citizen: why focus on the e- ?
• What is the social life of the citizen?
– Work : contribute to common and individual wealth
– Leisure : get reward from common and individual wealth
– Politics : get the social life organised for common benefits
• We believe that Political main priorities are based on a democratic system
• (Other systems exist, however)
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

The perspective of the citizen: why focus on the e- ? (2)
• The working environment is being optimised largely through the use of IT
• Current life is also becoming fully reliant on e-tools
(for communication, mobility, management of information, …)
• It is natural that democratic politics, one of the basic social functions, is also taking benefit from IT
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

E-Voting and e-Citizenship within e-
Government environments
• Managerial model : Digital cities,
Administrations on-line, i.e. e-government reengineering
• Participatory model : e-voting are restrictive as such and converge towards (and will be supported by) new networked deliberative systems
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

• The main challenge today is that the political environment remains democratic
• This implies that the citizen is effectively involved in the political decision making process
• EFFECTIVE AND CONSISTENT
PARTICIPATION IS KEY
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

• Low participation in the democratic process, both from citizen and from representatives sides, are anti-democratic
• Any constructive scenario for 2010 implies a high level of participation
• E-voting is now an engineering issue. Ecitizenship based on high level of information exchange and management is the real challenge
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

Who is driving : the governance process or the democratic process ?
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

• Suppress the digital divide in the democratic process
• Develop trust and security in the democratic process
• Integrate the various institutional levels of democratic participation
• Manage knowledge in order to efficiently cope with the democratic process
• Integrate the e-democratic process within the government re-engineering
• Obtain effective productisation of industrial solutions
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

Elements for a roadmap in e-
Democracy
Technology issues :
Security
Authentication
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Network
Application
Information Base
Software
Content Mgt
Semantics
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

Elements for a roadmap in e-
Democracy (2)
Socio-political issues
• Type of promoted citizenship
• Roles of the elected officials/citizens
(representatives)
• Managing the information flow
• Privileged functionalities of the networked environment
• Networked environment benefits
, EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

EVE (2001 – 2004): supporting e-
Democracy evolution in Europe
• Clustering the efforts made under DG INFSO
– IST Programme
• Opening actions and experience to the rest of the world
• Installing a reference centre for e-Democracy in Europe
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

• The roadmap (How to get there)
• The EVE reference centre (Methodology to support the process)
• Guidelines for implementation of e-Democracy solutions (Tools to support the process)
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

• The democratic process shall benefit from IT as much as the rest of citizen social life, or democracy will become marginal
• Hopes, expectancies, desires, etc. of citizens are monitored, controlled, surveyed in permanence: is a democratic process capable to address them ?
• Information has long been a synonym of power: will representatives accept (at last !!!) to efficiently share ?
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

• Working groups
• EVE Conference
• TODOS
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

• Usages
• Trials
• Technology
• Regulation
• Marketing
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

• 15 - 16 October in Paris
• 3 main topics :
– E-Citizenship
– E-Voting
– E-Democracy within e-Governance
• We count on you (cf. http://www.eve.cnrs.fr)
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr

contact points
Jorge Vieira da Silva - MTA :
+33 1 44 51 74 00, eve@mta.fr
Eric Maigret - CNRS (coordinator of the EVE project):
+33 1 44 16 75 52, eve@damesme.cnrs.fr
Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva , EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr