Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 19th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview e-Government Author(s) Iulia Grigorovici National School of Political Studies and Public Administration Bucuresti Romania Matei Ani, Ph.D. Professor Ani Matei, Ph.D. Student Iulia Grigorovici Title Electronic governance, premise for implementation of electronic democracy File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract Living in a rapidly changing society, where information travels with great speed and its upgrade is essential, we decided to approach certain aspects of e-democracy, as a dynamic way of citizen participation, using new Information and Communications Technologies. The theme chosen for this research, Electronic governance, premise for implementation of electronic democracy, is a part of Electronic Administration field and identifies the meanings of implementing e-government and e-democracy, the necessity and effects of putting them into practice and the conditions to be fulfilled for the development of electronic services and fostering citizen participation in their use. E-governance as well as e-democracy have a clear contribution in making social progress, thanks to capitalize the most important irreversible resource, the time for achievement of the main administrative operations. The overall objective of the research aims to establish the relationship between governance and electronic democracy. From this perspective, this paper contain: analyzing the importance of both e-governance and e-democracy, risks and benefits for each one, clarifying the need and implications underlying the implementation of electronic systems and explain the conditions to be met by citizens in order to benefit from these services. To achieve the objectives set, will be dominant longitudinal and qualitative methods, meaning analyze the social phenomena or events in their evolution (case study, biographical analysis). They will also combine harmoniously with statistical methods and practical examples. As a final result of this work, we aim to achieve a comparative study for identifying levels of use of e-government and e-democracy in various member states of the European Union.
