Partners

On this page the partners of the Consortium introduce themselves. You can find more detailed information on each of them by clincking on the "More about" links.

Napier University ITC

Working with governments, parliaments and NGOs, ITC has an international reputation for combining e-democracy development with political and sociological analysis of the outcomes. This includes analytical frameworks for e-participation; managing public information and knowledge, and societal effects of technology on democracy. More about Napier

HP

HP (Hewlett-Packard) has solid background experience in terms of architectural design, software and knowledge of the processes and workflow associated with parliaments, that is required to define e-Representative. More about HP

Scytl

Scytl is a European company specialized in application-level cryptography and a worldwide leader in the development of secure e-government and e-voting solutions. Scytl was formed as a spin-off from a leading University research group on e-voting security and has numerous international awards including the 2005 IST Prize granted by the European Commission to best technology companies in Europe.
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Gov2U

Gov2U was founded in 2005 with the intention of harnessing the potential of ICTs as vital tools for the improvement of representative democracy. The main crux of our activities is the research, development and deployment of open source enabling technologies to facilitate legislative information gathering and dissemination.
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Dutch Parliament

Since 1956 the constitution stipulates that the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal) should comprise 150 members. The members of the House are directly elected by the people. Elections usually take place every four years.
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Lithuanian Parliament

Seimas is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of Lithuania. Under the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania of October 1992, the unicameral Parliament of Lithuania, the Seimas, is composed of 141 MPs who are elected for a four-year term in one-candidate or multi-candidate electoral areas on the basis of universal and equal suffrage by secret ballot in direct mixed system elections.
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Catalonian Parliament

The Parliament is the chief institution of the Generalitat, Catalonia's self-government. Parliament exercises legislative power, approves budgets and controls political and government action. It is involved in this project as a major innovator in ICT usage in the democracy sphere and as a case study in the development of democratic institutions.
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Hungarian National Assembly

The Republic of Hungary is an independent, democratic and constitutional state. Since the constitutional amendment of October 23, 1989 the Hungarian state is a republic, and the type of regime is parliamentary democracy. The government is responsible to the National Assembly and derives its powers from the majority of voters. Legislative power is exercised by the unicameral National Assembly consisting of 386 members. Members of the National Assembly are elected for four years.
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Westmeath County Council

County Westmeath - one of 26 counties in the Irish Republic - is located in the midlands, 80 km west of Dublin. -It has a population of approximately 80,000.- Its principal towns are Mullingar and Athlone.
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eRepresentative is a project co-financed under the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union