Activities of Kazimierz Michał UJAZDOWSKI related to 2016/2008(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on e-democracy in the European Union: potential and challenges PDF (414 KB) DOC (78 KB)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas following the reccurrent crises in the economic, political, cultural and social fields that havare severely affecteding individual Member States and the Union as a whole, citizens’ relationship with politics and more generally political, intellectual and media elites has become increasingly strained, as the publiceople feels that it is not represented nor ruled adequately; whereas the engagement and involvement of citizens and civil society in democratic life are essential for the good functioning of democracy and for the legitimacy and accountability of both national and EU representational systems;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas it is crucial to regain citizens’ confidence and interest in the European project by improving participationeffective control, accountability and transparency in decision- making, buttressing democratic oversight mechanisms, making political parties more open and reforming electoral systems to give the publiceople more voice in them;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas e-democracy could represent an alternativecomplementary form of engagement capable of providing a solution to public disaffection with traditional politics, and could help promote grassroots support for EU policiereforms;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the purpose of e- democracy is to facilitate democratic practice, to enhance transparency and efficiency of political institutions, and to improve the democratic character of decision-making procedures; and not to establish an alternative democratic system or to promote a certain type of democracy;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights and encourages the use of e-participation as a key characteristic of e-democracy, encompassing three forms of interaction between EU institutions and governments on one hand, citizens on the other hand, mainly e-information, e- consultation and e-decision-making; acknowledges that many national, regional and local e-participation cases can be taken as good examples of how ICT can be used in participatory democracy;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. PNotes that electronic voting does not increase voter turnout, nevertheless, points to the importance of e-voting as a system offering many potential advantages,. in particular for young people, home- bound people, people with reduced mobility and people living or working in a Member Sstate of which they are not a citizen or in a third country;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls the first successful European example of online voting in Estonia in its legally binding elections in 2005 as a positive example, but maintains that if the take-up of e-voting across Europe is to be successful, it will be necessary to assess the costs, benefits and implications of different or divergent technological approaches; in order to address in priority issues of various deficiencies and fundamental security vulnerabilities that undermine voting system honesty and confidence, identified by numerous experts assessments for more than ten years, like the Security analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) in United States;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that democratic processes require extensive debate, on every level of EU society, proper scrutiny and reflection which are conducive to fair and rational deliberation, but that this could be overshadowed by specific sectorial interests which abuse the influence of ICT;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on thePoints out at significant digital divide between countries in terms of digital infrastructure and citizens experience with e-participation, calls on Member States and the EU to provide educational and technical means for improving ICT competences and digital access for all EU citizens in order to bridge the digital divide (eE-inclusion), for the ultimate benefit of democracy; encourages the Member States to integrate the acquisition of digital skills into school curricula, to foresee digital training programmes for elderly people, and supports the development of networks with universities and educational institutions to promote research on and implementation of new participation tools;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States and the EU to provide educational and technical means for improving ICT competences and digital access for all EU citizens in order to bridge the digital divide (e-inclusion), for the ultimate benefit of democracy; encourages the Member States to integrate the acquisition of digital skills into school curricula and supports the development of networks with universities and educational institutions toand design skills for public agents as a necessary condition to develop, simplify and facilitate the accessibility to administrative services online, and promote research on and implementation of new participation tools;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the Member States and the EU to deliver affordable and high-speed digital infrastructure, particularly in peripheral regions and rural and economically less developed areas, and to ensure that equality between citizens is guaranteed; recommends that public libraries and schools be appropriately resourced and that IT infrastructure be accessible to all citizens;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages the Member States and the EU to promote and support mechanisms that enable the participation of the public and their interaction with governments and EU institutions; highlights that ICT should facilitate access to information, transparency, active listening and debate for better decision- making ; commits to make all the existing tools of legislative follow-up more accessible, understandable, educational and interactive, invites the Commission to do the same on its own website;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to realise the full potential of the European Citizens’' Initiative by improving the ECI's rules, to make them more flexible and less complex, through a wider use of ICT, in order to make this important tool more cost-effective, user-friendly and widely publicised; believes that the use of new technology could improve, in particular, the online signature collection system;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Notes that since 2012, 56 ECIs have been submitted to the European Commission, 36 were registered, and 20 were rejected; regrets that only three initiatives - 'Right to water', 'One of us', and 'Stop Vivisection' have succeeded in reaching one million signatures; states that because of excessive complexity, poor outcomes, and low certainty of impact active citizens are discouraged from using this instrument of participatory democracy;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for more cooperation at EU level and recommends the sharing of best practices for e-democracy projects as a way to move towards a form of democracy that is more participatory and deliberative and that responds to the requests and interests of the publicinterests of the different people of Europe; highlight the key-role of new technologies to support the development of national parliaments network, their horizontal exchanges and coordination with the aim of using all the potential allowed by the Treaties to improve subsidiarity control, Council accountability and EU laws legitimation ; calls on the Commission to provide an assessment of possible models of online voting for consideration by the Member States by the end of 2017, in time for the next European elections in 2019;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses the need to protect privacy and personal data when using e-democracy tools and to foster a more secure internet environment, particularly with regard to information and data security, the setting- up of secure digital public registers and the validation of electronic signatures in order to prevent fraudulent multiple interactions; underlines that security issues must not become a deterrent to the inclusion of individuals and groups in democratic processesfull involvement for every citizens without exception or distinction;