[open-government] Fwd: [liberationtech] Fwd: Democracy crowdsourcing in Estonia

Wed Aug 28 14:57:01 UTC 2013

Dated, but very interesting.

From: Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:16 AM
Subject: [liberationtech] Fwd: Democracy crowdsourcing in Estonia
To: Liberation Technologies <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
Cc: Liia Hänni <liia.hanni at gmail.com>

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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