CAHDE: ‘Committee Ad-Hoc pour Democratie Electronique’ or: working on an e-democracy recommendation

For the past 1,5 years E-Voting.CC has been involved in the multilateral working group of the Council of Europe on the E-Democracy. The committee under the chairing of Thomas Buchsbaum (he also successfully negotiated the e-voting commendations in 2003/2004) from the Austrian ministry of European and International Affairs currently works on a recommendation on how e-democracy can be introduced at various levels of government.

The part where E-Voting.CC is heavily involved was the work on ‘a set of generic e-democracy tools’ where we identified and described 28 tools of e-democracy:

1. E-Campaigning
2. E-Discussion
3. E-Information (Aggregation)
4. E-Journalism
5. E-Parliament
6. E-Party (external)
7. E-Politician
8. Grassroots C2C, C2G
9. Vote Navigator
10. Digital Illiteracy
11. E-Complaints
12. E-Consultation
13. E-Inclusion
14. E-Neighbourhood
15. E-Petition
16. Government with Citizens G2C, and C2C
17. E-Obstacles
18. Regulating
E-Democracy
19. Single Government Portal
20. Social Network Activities
21. E-CiRM
22. E-Voting
23. Party’s Internal E-Democracy
24. E-Democracy Games
25. E-Democracy Webcasts
26. E-Incentives
27. E-Ombudsman and Audit Institutions
28. E-Training

The toolkit will presented to the public at the Future of Democracy Forum in Madrid from 15th to 17th of October 2008. Until then be sure to check out the Council of Europe’s Democracy website at https://www.coe.int/democracy

We will keep you posted!