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

 

. Highway to democr@cy – the Council of

  Europe and the information society

. Guarding the watchdog – the Council of

  Europe and the media 

WSIS 2003

The first phase of the UN World Summit on the Information Society was held in Geneva in December 2003. The Integrated Project “Making democratic institutions work” (IP1) acted as coordinator for the different Council of Europe sectors who contributed to the Political Message from the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to the World Summit on the Information Society (CM(2003)87final – see below). This Message sets out the core values which the Council of Europe felt should be included in the final declaration and action plan of the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe (Warsaw, 17 May 2005).

Political message from the Committee of Ministers to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
(Geneva, 10-12 December 2003)
. English version:
. Spanish version
. Arabic version:
. Russian version:
. Spanish version

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)