#CeDEM13 Day 2 afternoon, Reflections, Main Hall, Chair: Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen

1. The Right to Information as a
Question of Public Sovereignty
Ivo Babaja
CeDEM 13
Conference for E-Democracy
And Open Government
22 – 24 May 2013.
Danube University Krems, Austria

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WHY?
OPENNESS & PARTICIPATION

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POPULAR
SOVEREIGNTY
Technology opened up new
possibilities to exercise it.

4. 4/6
Popular sovereignty principle
targets
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
AS AN INFORMATION SYSTEM

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THE CONCLUSION:
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM
SHOULD BE DESIGNED
WITH CITIZENS
AS ITS ULTIMATE INFORMATION CLIENTS

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SO,
● The system should be conceived, designed and
developed for citizens, not government;
● Tweaking of the current systems can only have
limited results;
● New system should be designed and then
applied;
● Tech. possibilities are long-time available: this
change is required to accept contemporary
political systems for what they declare to be: true
democracies.

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APPENDIX
Implications:
● Not “right to information” but obligation to publish in
comprehensive OAS (Open Administration System)
● OAS is used for administrative purposes and public
access at the same time
● Authorized access for civil servant and citizens
alike, with tracking of OAS usage
●It must be clear which data is not open, why, for how
long, and who can access it
● State limited
● OAS administration should be conducted by
confronted interest groups with logical separation of
the duties