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Key documents

 

E-voting

. Recommendation Rec (2004)11 on legal,

  operational and technical standards for

  e-voting

. E-voting handbook - implementation of

  e-enabled elections

. Guidelines on certification of e-voting

  systems

. Guidelines on transparency of e-enabled

  elections

. Reports of biennial Reviews 2008 and

  2010

. Council of Europe studies on e-voting

. National developments on e-voting

 

E-democracy

. Recommendation (2009)1 on

  e-democracy and Explanatory

  memorandum

  (PdF version   -  Word version)

. Practical tools to Rec(2009)1

. Glossary of technical terms in the field

  of electronic democracy

 

Internet governance

. Recommendation (2004)15 and

  explanatory memorandum

 

UN WSIS/ IGF

Texts submitted by the Council of Europe

for:

. IGF 2010

. IGF 2009

. IGF 2008

. WSIS 2005

. WSIS 2003

 

Internet literacy

Internet literacy handbook

 

 

 

Publications

 

 

 

Useful external links

 

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. E-democracy

. Internet governance

. Internet literacy

. Media & elections

 

WSIS 2003

Political message from the Committee of Ministers to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
(Geneva, 10-12 December 2003)
. French version:
. Spanish version
. Arabic version: CM (2003) 87 نهائي 24 حزيران/يونيه 2003
الرسالة السياسية الموجهة من لجنة الوزراء لدى مؤتمر القمة العالمي المعني بمجتمع المعلومات (جنيف، 10-12 كانون الأول/ديسمبر 2003)
. Russian version: CM(2003)87 final 24 June 2003
Политическое послание Комитета министров Всемирной встрече на высшем уровне по вопросам информационного общества (ВСИС) (Женева, 10–12 декабря 2003 года)
. Chinese version (UN Version – pdf)

Democracy, human rights and the rule of law in the Information Society
Contribution by the Council of Europe to the 2nd Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on the Information Society (Geneva, 17-28 February 2003)