THE CONCEPT OF "DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN LATVIA"

THE CONCEPT OF "DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN LATVIA" THE NEED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT The ideal state system - a system that fully satisfy the interests of everyone. In the present system of representative democracy in Latvia is irrelevant to such an assertion. In reality, elected representatives are not fighting for the interests of the people, but for their own interests. Their participation in politics - is to create a political career, which are not guided by the ideals and benefits of commitment to a particular ideal. Elected representatives of the people are sort of an intermediary role between our opinion and public servants. For one person it is impossible to take into account the views of tens of thousands of people, so the decisions are the result of subjective evaluation of the circumstances of one person and not fully correspond to the real opinion of most people. This game «voiceless phone» effect on confidence in the people's representatives and the credibility of the state apparatus as a whole. The second negative factor - high levels of corruption among elected representatives of the people in the system of representative democracy. The third negative side representative apparatus is its high cost. Establishment of a national project to introduce a national project «Direct Democracy in Latvia» is a profitable investment for Latvia s state because it allows you to remove unnecessary link in the people's will and reduce the cost of its maintenance. In such a small country like Latvia (both in territory and population density), but with a relatively high level of education (second place in the world in the relative number of students), direct democracy has the potential to be an optimal solution for the modernization of state administration. The overall objective of the project - to reduce corruption and strengthening the rule of law in Latvia with the help of modern procedures of direct democracy with the use of information and communication technologies. Thus and so, this aim of creating the project «Direct Democracy in Latvia» is the most complete reflection of the views of all indifferent to the fate of the state of people for political decisions, which plays an important role in the fate of our country. The second objective of the project we see a demonstration of direct democracy opportunities for follow-up as a national project to reform the state structure. COMMON VISION PROJECT This concept is an ideal vision of the project. Realize the full potential of the project is a major challenge and requires mutual effort in each region. If you hurry and make a bad project, it will undermine the basic ideas and undermine the credibility of attempts to implement such projects in the future. Is therefore necessary to combine and carefully coordinate mutual efforts to prevent such failures. Project «Direct Democracy in Latvia» reflects all the important public issues that attract the interest of politically active citizens: from the state elections before making the bills. The project is a public vote and compare the results of decisions made with real announcement of results. As an expert and objective evaluators of the project are invited government officials and lawyers. The project must be implemented a rigorous system of recording and accounting of all participants. 1

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS Project Title: Direct Democracy in Latvia Options for domain name: Audience Participants: politically active able-bodied citizens of Latvian state. Evaluation and expert opinion: civil servants, lawyers Features The project should be implemented the following functionality: Information ribbon current laws and elections Preparing own bills jointly by the project participants Closed voting members of the project via the Internet or mobile phone for a decision on the elections or bills Discussion of bills by the project participants Expert opinion of public servants and lawyers adopted bills Project Risks Implementation of the project requires special attention to information security. Breach of information security system will undermine the credibility of the project and the possibilities of its further implementation. The main risks undermining the credibility of the project are: Participation in the voting process and discussion of the representatives of non-specific audience (minors, foreign nationals, etc.). Voting on local issues of citizens of other regions The possibility of unauthorized access to the polls and their changes The small number of project participants and their low activity in the voting SITEMAP Home On the home page reflects the contents of the information strips on the decisions taken at the state level and the results of voting on them. Also on the main page provides links to move to other sections of the project registration form and enter the personal profile of the project. Elections and laws Section presents the following subsections Information ribbon election of public servants with the closed form of voting only for the project participants Newswires bills with a closed form of voting only for the project participants Closed forum for discussing decisions only for the project participants Expert opinions on the results of decisions 2

Newswires elections reflects the processes of regional and federal elections, government officials (mayor, governor, president) from survey participants. Project participants will be able to vote for those public servants, are most interested. Of course, that the parliamentary elections we are going to boycott, and actively promote the idea of their cancellation. To participate in the elections and coverage of their candidates are invited directly by the participants of elections, who are interested in additional media coverage of his person, as well as those who, for one reason or another not able to formally participate. Newswires bills reflect those bills on which decisions are made in the meetings of deputies. Bills should be implemented as a directory with the thematic sections. Ability to select subjects decisions can vote for exactly the issues that concern members. For example, the financial officer will be understandable and interesting questions of changes in legislation on financial matters. And in the process of discussion, he will lead his professional opinion to help others to make the right choice. On the basis of thematic sections proposed the establishment of committees, where people, in accordance with their professional skills can register to receive a sample of bills for the topics that interest them. We need to carry limited opportunities for members of the project by voting for the decisions taken in other geographic regions, so as not to confuse the results. Ability to vote at the federal level is common to all. Forum to discuss the bills by the project participants to thematic sections based on the catalog with separate bills and tops for each bill. Expert opinions on the results of the decisions are implemented as a separate information tapes created by the project participants are registered as public figures. The main theme of sub-planned responses to questions about the disparity between the actual results of a vote on the project. Legislation Section «Legislation» is intended to create bills directly by project participants. Its implementation will be based on the WiKi-pages that allow all project participants to create, modify and supplement the bills, and then expose them to an open vote. This section will be actively involved with the opinion of expert legal professionals who can evaluate the significance and possibility of the proposed bills. PERSONAL PROFILE In a personal profile instantly reflected the following data: Last name, first name, middle name / / mandatory field Age / / mandatory field Professional skills / / mandatory field Mobile / / mandatory field E-mail / / mandatory field ICQ / / optional Address of residence / / mandatory field 3

Level of participation: / / determined by the administrator of the project - project participant - expert Authorization party is as follows: participant completes the required fields in the registration form after completion of registration, the participant is sent an SMS-message with an authorization code and asking you to confirm your registration party gains access to all sections, except the ability to add expert opinions by the site administrator is comfortable with, in case he shows himself as an expert to confirm the status after the party gets access to the possibility of adding expert opinion Feedback form For visitors to be implemented form of communication, in which they can report an error in the information security breaches or to request their participation in the project. The form of communication should send a message to the content of the text in the form of feedback. Site content management system Management system should allow administrators to embed the project in the information strip information about the current election, and bills to restrict the rights of project participants, sabotage the project. Management system should not allow administrators to access or modify the results of voting GRAPHIC DESIGN Graphic design project is planned to perform on the basis of design of the site of the State Office for the appropriate identification of the site visitors. REQUIRED RESOURCES Hosting for the project Domain name Web designer and Web developer Internet-promoter Project Administrator PLAN Presentation of the project concept and its refinement Creating a design project Domain name registration and hosting site search The project realization Test performance of the implemented project Publication of the working version of the project at a site Registration in search systems Setting relationships with major Internet portals to promote the project Sending press releases and making contacts with media representatives to inform about the project Send invitations to the project participants, which we would like to see as experts and potential sponsors. 4

INVITATION TO We would like to invite to participate actively in the project: State figures for peer review activities and discuss the project, as well as to participate in it as the elected candidates. Representatives of political parties, for the active promotion of the national project of direct democracy in the regions Representatives of the media, to review information on inconsistencies the voting decisions in draft Large internet projects on relevant topics for the active promotion of the project and increase interest in the project by Latvian citizens. 5