E-democracy

BELGRADE - Digitisation is a priority for the Serbian government as part of its efforts to create an efficient, economical and transparent public administration - if we have such an administration, corruption is lower and people are more satisfied, says Mihajlo Jovanovic, head of the government office for IT and e-government.

The Serbian government adopted last week a draft bill on the National Academy of Public Administration.

It aims to provide "Equal opportunities for professional development of employees in public administration and thus enable further improvement of its work and the raising of quality of services for citizens and companies," the government announced on its website.

The Bulgarian Armed Forces, the Orthodox Church, the European Union and universities are the only institutions in Bulgaria enjoying "trust of around and more than 50%," a survey has shown.

The representatives survey, conducted by the Open Society Institute - Sofia, shows "the majority of citizens express permanent distrust of the main institutions of representative democracy."

BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Ana Brnabic said Tuesday her ministry's priorities would be to introduce e-government services, and added that tenders were already under way.

There is no heaven on earth. All the world's governments are engaged in their own negotiations; all the world's governments are directly or indirectly responsible for lost lives near or far away from them, for undernourished souls, for people laying their heads on pavement stones instead of pillows... They all have their fingers in the pie.

Turkey?s top business organization has warned about the risks that political uncertainties, market fluctuations and security risks pose to Turkey?s economic gains, urging politicians to refocus on democratization and economic reform during a meeting in Istanbul on Sept. 17. 

Even if we hold the most beautiful elections in the whole world, even if we achieve the best democracy; and even if we receive a magnificent outcome that makes everybody happy, I am still in a different place at the polling station. 

The reason is that when we look at these photographs, all of us are getting smaller, we are shrinking. We are trapped in a bottleneck? 

I do not like the word ?tolerance? at all because it contains some kind of a favor, a grant. It is a show of thinking of one?s self as superior and tolerating those who are inferior to you, the ones you actually cannot stand. 

Who is able to tolerate who and on what grounds? What kind of a bragging is that? Tolerance does not contain equality.

Yet another new political party, the Electronic Democracy Party, or “e-Party,” has launched in Turkey, months ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for June 2015.

Turkish parliamentarian Emrehan Halıcı officially launched the party on Nov. 26 in Ankara, and said other co-leaders will be elected soon.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki said Tuesday that the draft strategy for the introduction of e-government in Serbia will be completed by the end of the year.