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THE COUNTRY: SERVICE TO CITIZENS USE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES FOR CIVIC PARTICIPATION One petition in four years The Voice of Citizens e-petition is a portal that aims to allow citizens to participate in the creation of public policies, through filing petitions with the Government of Montenegro electronically. The project officially started in October 2012, and has been implemented in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP Office in Podgorica). Portal “Voice of a citizen” (Glas građana) allows all adult Montenegrin citizens who have an identity card, and foreigners with permanent residence in Montenegro who have identity cards, to file petitions in any area in the frame of competences of the Government of Montenegro. During the last 42 months, only two petitions were declared; while 46 were filed, 24 did not manage to collect the sufficient number of signatures, and 20 petitions were rejected because they did not fulfill conditions. A petition that received support required urgent construction and/or upgrading of kindergartens in Podgorica, Bar, and other municipalities where the problem of limited accommodation capacities exist. It was voted on at the end of 2012, and was later adopted at a session of the government. Implementation of the petition is in course. Another petition, “Police Academy in Danilovgrad to be named after Slavoljub Slavko Šćekić,” was supported at the beginning of 2013, but was afterwards rejected at a session of the government. The lack of platform is reflected in the fact that support for these two initiatives were collected offline, or more precisely, by signing the petition on boulevards of cities, which implies that the platform did not succeed in doing what it was supposed to – make it easier for citizens to participate. Citizens E-participation Process Technology 105
10 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE - INSIGHT VIEW The government has tasked the Operational Team to work on the preparation of recommendations for improvement of this portal and later rejected part of the important conclusions of that body. Some of the key suggestions were a reduced requirement for number of signatures from 6,000 to 3,000, which is appropriate to the levels of computer literacy, the level of the internet use, and the overall social and economic conditions in Montenegro, and extension of the deadline (from two to three months) by which it is necessary to collect signatures. The Platform “Voice of citizens” is not translated into Albanian or the Roma language, and does not give the opportunity to address local self-governments, while additional complications and searching of additional data distance citizens from the provision of support with petitions. Rejecting the most important suggestions, the Government did not show that it shared capacities of the Operational Team. In that manner, the current situation has not been resolved, in which the platform was stultified due to inadequate criteria. The fact that there were no active petitions on this portal for almost a year and a half, and that no petitions were submitted, best explains functionality of this instrument. Will such limitations and insufficiencies cause citizens to lose confidence and enthusiasm for similar future projects that will eventually be implemented in the frame of OGP? Does this implementation of the partnership fulfill final goals for which the platform was initiated? 106
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