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Phone: +44-1233-812037
Fax: +44207 681 1727
Email: info@e-parl.net
http://www.e-parl.net

The e-Parliament is building a new kind of international institution - one that is democratic and transparent, in which anyone can participate. The e-Parliament has been created to address two major problems facing humanity: a global democracy gap, and a problem-solving gap.

The e-Parliament exists to spread good policy ideas among the democratic parliamentarians of the world. In order to do this, the e-Parliament secretariat: - is building a database of elected legislators from around the world. Currently this database runs to 18,000 members of parliament from 97 countries: countries as diverse as Tuvalu, Russia and Nigeria. These legislators can all be emailed, polled and invited to sign petitions. - Identifies legislation that could be easily shared among different parliaments for the benefit of humanity around the world and forms toolkits so that this legislation can be passed more easily from one parliament to another. - Brings together legislators from different countries for international parliamentary committee hearings. The legislators listen to presentations by experts on particular issues so that the legislators better understand the world’s problems and gain a resolve to take concrete action to address them. In the future the aim is that the e-Parliament will work on a wide variety of different issues – and these priorities will be established by participating legislators. For the moment however, while funding and staffing are limited, the e-Parliament Council have decided to focus on two primary matters of global concern: climate change and the spread of democracy. With regard to climate change, the e-Parliament feels that it is essential that national legislators act quickly to introduce legislation to combat global warming. To this end, legislators have been polled on their energy priorities. There have also been international parliamentary hearings on energy and ecosystems. And the secretariat have published a Call for Regional Supergrids - which would enable the rapid deployment of renewable energies, to make power generated from fossil fuels and nuclear power entirely unnecessary. With regard to democracy, the e-Parliament believes that many of the world’s disputes could be solved by efficient and transparent democratic government. Introducing accountability, reducing corruption and increasing stakeholder participation throughout the world are therefore the background aims. To this end, the e-Parliament has held a hearing on democracy where legislators agreed to launch a Call for e-Freedom: a campaign to free anyone who has been imprisoned for opinions expressed on the internet.

1. Actor:

   International and regional organisations

2. Sector:

   Energy, Energy efficiency (general), Renewable energy (general)

3. Activity:

   Worldwide