A Study of Digital-Democracy and E-Voting-The Experience of Practical Process in Taiwan
Chung-Yuang Jan, Chunyuan Wang, Keng‐Ming Hsu · 中國行政評論 · 2005
Our society has undergone several transformations by the coming of information age, and one of which is the public service delivery. Nowadays, many governments provide services such as Internet, BBS, or IC cards by new technologies. These e-techs will inevitably propel the mutation in organization structure, culture, management, and so on. According to a investigation of performance priority of central government's web sites in 2001, Taiwan was ranked the second highest among 196 countries. The investigation makes the experience of e-government and digital-democracy in Taiwan more conspicuous. Taiwan, recently, is stepping into the practice level on which the value of digital-democracy will be examined, and e-voting will be developed. Therefore, some points will be discussed in this paper: first, the formation of e-government, digital-democracy, and e-voting; second, the case of e-voting of the USA and UK; and finally, the comparison of these two cases, and the enlightenments and implications to Taiwan.