Annex
The Application of Information and Communications
Technologies to Representation, Consultation and Participation[1]
4. The use of technology to support the
participation of citizens in deliberation/consultation about matters
of public (collective) concern:
— online public participation in proceedings
of parliamentary committees;
— electronic support for citizen juries
and other deliberative panels;
— unmediated political forums such
as collaborative open groups, electronic public squares and bulletin
boards;
— electronic submission of contributions
to public consultations on policy issues and examination of provenance
of official publications and statistics; and
— political mobilisation of opinion
through online petitions and virtual campaigns aimed at (changing)
public policy.
3. The use of technology to support communication
between MPs, Government and individual citizens on matters of
individual or consumer concern:
— e-mail or telephone correspondence
between MPs, citizens and the Executive on grievances raised by
individual service users;
— online advice bureaux held by MPs;
— direct e-mail/telephone correspondence
between government officials and consumers; and
— online or telephonic market research
on consumer preferences.
2. The use of technology to disseminate
information about Parliament and Government:
— broadcasting of parliamentary proceedings;
— publication of records of parliamentary
bills, papers, proceedings and votes;
— publication of MPs' voting records
and position papers; and
— publication of official government
reports, policy and strategy documents, official statistics, public
service league tables etc.
1. The use of technology to support internal
business associated with representation and participation:
— online access for MPs, Ministers
and officials to digest and analyses of public participation and
consultation exercises;
— online voting for MPs in parliamentary
divisions;
— online access for MPs and Ministers
to bills in draft, minutes of debates, committee agendas and background
papers, etc;
— online access for MPs and their staff
to library and information services; and
— online access for MPs, Ministers
and officials to market analyses culled from e-government data.
1 This diagram has been adapted from C A Bellamy and
C D Raab, Parliamentary democracy and new technology presented
to the Colloque Internationale on Les Parlements dans la Socie«te«
de Information, organised by the French Senate and CEVIPOF,
Paris, November 1999. Back
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