e-Tegeko: A System that Will Boost Citizens’ Participation on Parliamentary Regulations in Rwanda

Type Conference Paper - Computer and Information Science (ICIS), 2016 IEEE/ACIS 15th International Conference
Title e-Tegeko: A System that Will Boost Citizens’ Participation on Parliamentary Regulations in Rwanda
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2016
City Okayama
Country/State Japan
URL http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7550804
Abstract
In democratic countries, members of the parliament make draft-laws, bills and amend laws for the country and people to obey. In this paper, with Rwanda taken as a case study, we conducted a research on 61 individuals from rural and urban areas. The findings were that the citizen’s participation in the law making is very low; as citizen have to write letters and takethem to the parliament in case there is a law change or as a way to give an opinion about any draft-law or a bill. Taking a long time to read those letters and gather data. Another problem is also a lack of information about current laws. Information Communication Technologies (ICT); infrastructures in place, such as, internet penetration rate, mobile phone penetration rate, telecommunication coverage area should be considered when proposing a solution to improve. “e-Tegeko” is the proposed solution to that problem. Its purpose is to boost the citizen’s participation in the law making using smartphones and computers. All expected functions and benefits are illustrated.

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