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e-participation and transparency in the decision making process

Enhancing dialogue and interaction between citizens, NGOs, politicians, and public servants to improve e-participation possibilities at local and national level. Finland's initiatives include Open Government Partnership, services for e-participation, citizens' initiative, and e-participation for youth. Data protection guidelines ensure privacy and user control. Key benefits include cost-effectiveness, broad reach, improved quality and effectiveness of decision-making, diverse participation methods, and increased service level and trust.

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e-participation and transparency in the decision making process

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  1. e-participation and transparency in the decision making process Rauna NerelliMinistry of Justice, Finland

  2. National E-participation Environment • Part of Action Programme on eServices and eDemocracy(SADe)  • Enhances and enablesdialogue and interactionbetweencitizens, NGOs, politicians and publicservants • Improvese-participationpossibilities at local and national levelfree of charge • Ministry of Justiceorganisestraining on e-democracy • www.demokratia.fi

  3. Open Government Partnership • Finland joined the international program in 2013 • Currentlyimplementing 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 moreunderstandablelanguage at publicsector in 2014 • http://www.opengovpartnership.org/country/finland

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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 • Abill or a proposal to start drafting legislation • 6 initiatives have gathered more than 50,000 signatures • AuditedbyFinnishCommunicationsRegulatoryAuthority • Users’ namesarenotvisible to the public

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Contact informationrauna.nerelli@om.fiTwitter: @Nerelliwww.demokratia.fihttp://sadepalvelut.fi/en/facebook.com/otakantaa

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