I looked for some information about the new Cabinet committee, but couldn't find any. Do you have a link?
Posted by John Gøtze at December 5, 2001 12:14 AMAh, just got Clift's note on DO-WIRE ...
Posted by John Gøtze at December 5, 2001 11:59 PMThis is the only published piece I have seen on this so far. Is there any more around? SN
"E-democracy at the top
30 November 2001
Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced a heavyweight Cabinet committee to discuss e-democracy
A UK Cabinet level committee will meet to discuss e-democracy, Prime Minister Tony Blair announced to Parliament on 29 November 2001. The committee is the most significant sign yet that e-democracy is being taken seriously at the top of Government.
Answering a parliamentary question, Blair told MPs that he had chosen the leader of the House of Commons, Robin Cook a former foreign secretary, to head the committee. Cook already heads Parliament's modernisation committee which is looking at introducing more technology to Westminster.
"I have asked my right honourable friend the president of the council and leader of the House of Commons to chair a new Cabinet Committee on e-democracy," he said.
The aim of the committee is to "consider ways of strengthening the democratic process by engaging the public and their elected representatives through the use of the internet and other electronic means," Blair said.
The members of the committee are:
Robin Cook (president of the council and the leader of the House of Commons)
Patricia Hewitt (secretary of state for Trade and Industry)
Paul Boateng (financial secretary to the Treasury)
Nick Raynsford (minister of state for Transport, Local Government and the Regions)
Charles Clarke (minister without portfolio)
John Denham (minister of state for home affairs)
Douglas Alexander (minister of State for Trade and Industry)
Barbara Roch (minister of state for the Cabinet Office)
Stephen Twigg (parliamentary secretary for the leader of the House of Commons Office)
John Healey (parliamentary under secretary of state for Education and Skills)
Andrew Pinder, the e-envoy -- who's office is working on an e-democracy paper -- has also been invited to attend the committee, Blair said.
In October 2001, the Department for Transport Local Government and the Regions invited councils to bid for funds to set up e-voting pilots for the local authority elections during 2002.
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University of London Union are currently holding their second year of online ballots, to elect their student representatives across a federal university of 120,000 students.
Robin Cook came to visit last week on a fact-finding mission.
Does anyone have a comment for the student newspaper about how well the government are researching e-government opportunities?
Posted by Fiona Sibley at March 7, 2002 08:56 PM