1. Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva, EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr Needs of citizens related to the democratic process Scenarios for 2010

2. Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva, EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr OUTLINE 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

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva, EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr Scenarios for 2010 (2) 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. E- citizenship based on high level of information exchange and management is the real challenge

8. Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva, EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr Scenarios for 2010 (3) Who is driving : the governance process or the democratic process ?

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

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

11. 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 Links between the virtual and the real

12. Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva, 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

13. Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva, EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr EVE adressing the long term challenges in e-Democracy 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)

14. Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva, EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr Conclusions 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 ?

15. Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva, EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr A few actions of EVE Working groups EVE Conference TODOS

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

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

18. Brussels, Sept 2002, Jorge Vieira da Silva, EVE project : contact-eve@mta.fr contact points http://www.eve.cnrs.fr contact-eve@mta.fr 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