- The document discusses a paperless democracy project that aims to digitize document workflows in government to reduce paper usage and improve access to information. - It proposes using e-ink devices to allow politicians and public officials to view and annotate documents digitally like they would on paper. This would save money on printing and copying costs for meetings while providing remote access. - As an example, it estimates the potential savings for a small Italian town council that spends 800 euros per meeting on paper and could replace this with a wireless e-ink device solution.

1. Paperless Democracy Simplicissimus Book Farm Rome 13 May 2009

2. Marco Croella CTO Simplicissimus Book Farm Srl www.simplicissimus.it Professional Blog: http://secondome.simplicissimus.it Personal Blog: http://www.secondome.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcocroella

4. To simplify document management

7. Council activities, at all levels, requiring instant management of agendas, amendments and approvals (recurrent sharing of documents)

8. E-Ink technology

10. tiring for the eyes

11. limited battery autonomy

12. size and weight

14. easy to read

15. high level of battery autonomy

16. light and compact

17. visibility similar to that of printed paper

18. Take notes on epaper

20. Each council session accounts for €800 of paper. On top of this there are the administrative costs

21. The council meets on average twice a month, for a total of 20-30 sessions a year.

23. Councils of public sector agencies, both local and national

24. Boards of directors

26. Transmission of the file for each item on the agenda (proposed resolutions, appendices and presentations)

27. Instant drafting of any changes (amendments or additions) to the agenda

28. Instant drafting of amendment proposals

29. Instant drafting of the final version to be put to the vote

30. Instant drafting of any additional documents (agendas and recommendations, etc.)

32. secretarial staff administer the local network server

33. the server distributes the agenda and files for each agenda item

34. each councillor interacts with the documents as normal: using a special pen to write on the e-paper

35. each councillor can edit his proposed amendments or additional documents by hand and transmit them to the local server, which immediately sends them out to everyone

36. Example of electronic document flow COUNCILLORS (DR1000) CHAIRMAN (DR1000) SECRETARIAT (Server) 5 1 2 3 4 Simulazione seduta Consiglio Comunale Digitale

37. Contacts Our headquarters are in Loreto, AN, Italy. We also have offices in Milan. Web: http://www.simplicissimus.it Email: [email_address] Antonio Tombolini (CEO): [email_address] Marco Croella (CTO): [email_address]