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10 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE - INSIGHT VIEW<br />
The government has tasked the Operational Team to work on the preparation of recommendations<br />
for improvement of this portal and later rejected part of the important conclusions of that<br />
body. Some of the key suggestions were a reduced requirement for number of signatures from<br />
6,000 to 3,000, which is appropriate to the levels of computer literacy, the level of the internet<br />
use, and the overall social and economic conditions in Montenegro, and extension of the deadline<br />
(from two to three months) by which it is necessary to collect signatures. The Platform “Voice<br />
of citizens” is not translated into Albanian or the Roma language, and does not give the opportunity<br />
to address local self-governments, while additional complications and searching of additional<br />
data distance citizens from the provision of support with petitions.<br />
Rejecting the most important suggestions, the Government did not show that it shared capacities<br />
of the Operational Team. In that manner, the current situation has not been resolved, in which<br />
the platform was stultified due to inadequate criteria. The fact that there were no active petitions<br />
on this portal for almost a year and a half, and that no petitions were submitted, best explains<br />
functionality of this instrument.<br />
Will such limitations and insufficiencies cause citizens to lose confidence and enthusiasm for<br />
similar future projects that will eventually be implemented in the frame of OGP? Does this implementation<br />
of the partnership fulfill final goals for which the platform was initiated?<br />
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