You can go through, suggest, comment and spread the word about the Blueprint on eParliament.org (327Kb, PDF) among your INFLUENTIAL contacts. As evident from the attached documents, this is, unlike other online enterprises, a SERIOUS PEACEBUILDING INITIATIVE as aspired by world citizens like your goodself.
Above all, eParliament.org is a voluntary project that was born out of urgency rather than, unlike other e-ventures, a luxury as it was originated from a bleeding land which is yearning for peace since 1994 although she is renowned as a land of peace, bestowed with the birthplace of Buddha-the Light of Asia and Mt. Everest-the world's highest peak.
eParliament.org, therefore, needs your support to build a peaceful environment in the conflict-ridden zones of Asia, Africa and CIS as well as in the regions with psychosis of fear due to the new threat of terrorism in the developed world including the USA.
In a nutshell
eParliament.org is a pioneering operational model of webocracy to harness the power of virtual space to bring real changes in the lives of people by promoting the Internet as secure, confidential, convenient and cost-effective negotiation and mediation medium for conflict resolution and peace-building. eParliament.org also safeguards human rights and helps establish and/or restore democratic political culture in the regions of armed conflicts, transitional democracies and closed societies. Also, eParliament.org serves as a public grievances and redressal cell, and a free and unbiased platform for everyone, born and yet-to-be-born.
eParliament.org is driven by the universal principles of Netjustice, social change, grassroots democracy, decentralization, nonviolence, respect for diversity, personal and local responsibility, community-based solutions to world problems and future-focus.
Most importantly, eParliament.org could be the most ideal and undisputable approach for all of us to reach the common goal of equitable, just and peaceful world where all of our kids and us live together in harmony and without fear.
Work in progress
For your kind information, a couple of computer engineers and other experts from around the world have been volunteering for the project (all unpaid) day in, day out to get it launched within this month, but without any external funding so far. And this would be an entirely people-driven, most democratic project which utilizes the virtual Net to bring real changes in lives of the people. And, needless to mention, our world desperately needs such proactive approaches.
Endorsement
For your perusal, please download my deliberation (243Kb, PDF) to the 3rd International Conference of the Chief Justices of the World, held in Lucknow, India from December 6-8, 2002. The paper was endorsed by Chief Justices and heads of the states and governments from 40 countries as well as some 350 legal luminaries from India who took part in the 3-day event. I also invite you to endorse the Manifesto of the eParliament.org as soon as the official site gets launched.
Media coverage
The media and the dignitaries were most impressed with the practicality of my deliberation, and the same got covered prominently in two leading dailies from North India and Western India respectively (Hindustan dainik with a daily circulation of a million copies and Rajasthan Patrika with 600,000 copies a day). In Nepal, two leading dailies, The Kathmandu Post and Space Time Dainik, emphatically published write-ups on eParliament.org. Even a pan-Asian TV Channels have expressed their interest to cover the launch of eParliament.org live.
Rationale
Now, let me explain the rationale and merits of eParliament.org:
1) eParliament.org prevents the Parties-in-Conflict from the embarrassment of slipping out or being hijacked the core issues they are trying to achieve to/by third parties. This could sometimes lead to the surrender of sovereignty. Instead, it opens an avenue towards indigenous, localized and customized solutions to their problems without sacrificing or compromising their personal, professional or national integrity!
2) eParliament.org's eMediation approach is the most convenient and agreeable multiparty online process when the physical face-to-face meetings becomes inconvenient, impractical or impossible due to due to ideological extremity, limitation of time, scarcity of funds, physical availability or geography because it doesn't demand any pre-condition, compromise and/or sacrifice from either of the Parties-in-Conflict in any form except their willingness and proactiveness towards resolution.
3) eParliament.org is the pioneering online incarnation that integrates eDiplomacy, eDemocracy, eLegislature, eMediation, ePetition, eLegislation, ePress and eGovernance into a single platform.
4) eParliament.org, unlike other online ventures, is absolutely pro-world, unbiased and uncontrolled. Therefore, it projects views, opinions and perspectives, irrespective of the geographic location, color, age, sex, nationality or religious belief of the stakeholders. It is worth mention here that most of the online presence and media is mostly US- or Europe-centric as far as projection of perspectives are concerned.
5) eParliament.org serves as a human rights advocacy portal by exposing human rights abuses by either of the Parties-in-Conflict (establishments or rebel groups). In order to prevent vulnerabilities of physical attacks to those who report such cases, and to encourage the registered stakeholders to act in this direction, eParliament.org allows people to post the incidents of human rights abuses and other social evils (like corruption) ANONYMOUSLY.
6) eParliament.org is the only online forum that ventilates public grudges, views and opinions that become suffocated due to self-censorship or state-imposed censorship even by mass media in the closed societies, transitional democracies or in the conflict-inflicted regions.
7) eParliament.org is the first ever online venture that exactly mimics modalities, modus operandi and contents of the brick-and-mortar parliaments so that it could either revive the forcefully-dissolved parliaments online or help the incumbent parliament to address global issues which are beyond the scope of the existing parliaments. The global issues are classified into 27 distinct categories of world problems.
8) eParliament.org directly provides equal opportunity to every sector of the society to participate in the political, social, cultural, economic or environmental decision-making process while maintaining transparency at all levels. Therefore, eParliament.org has no hidden agenda at all.
9) The statements above manifests that eParliament.org advocates FREEDOM as the key to human development i.e. freedom of conscience, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of choice and freedom to act.
Thus eParliament.org is synonymous with the new glocal (global+local) political, social and economic order in our networked society.
However, the burning question is how eParliament.org could cater "Net Justice" to the poorest of poor people amidst the digital divide with several sections of societies in the developing world neither having power supply nor their people could afford expensive digital gadgets. As I clarified in my deliberation to the 3rd International Conference of Chief Justices of the World in the first week of December 2002, this question has already been answered by the outstanding and ingenious work by scientists from IIT Bangalore, India who devised SimputerTM (stands for Simple Computer). You can find more on it at simputer.org
Opportunities
Before I conclude, let me inform you that we are in dire need of unpaid voluntary webdevelopers, webresearchers, webwriters, database managers, programmers, legal experts, fundraisers, management gurus, experts in international affairs, communication and PR professionals etc. who possess strong analytical skills, an ability to assimilate and translate ideas into useful products, and an incurable desire to serve and share, learn and lead. This is an unpaid offer, but ensures greater satisfaction as an opportunity to demonstrate your technical skills to the influential figures and organizations of the world. You can call it volunteer work. We prefer to call it an unpaid labor of love.
And I do believe that, like other tens of expert volunteers who are currently devoted their time, effort and energy to eParliament.org, a responsible world citizen like your goodself and your colleagues, friends, family members and neighbors may be interested to join and support our selfless peacebuilding effort. If you are interested, please contact me at the following address. I am incurably optimistic of your cooperation.
Get involved!
We welcome and appeal all institutions and individuals who share visions and goals that of eParliament.org to directly write to NetJustice@eParliament.org with the kind of support (moral, financial, physical or technical sponsorship) they could offer. The acceptance of the offer depends on how and to what extent the offer subscribes to eParliament.org spirit and principles. As a democratic initiative, we are always open to your comments and suggestions.
Your financial contributions to sponsor a full-fledged server or an unlimited webspace, bandwidth or data communication systems, online technologies and embedded systems for interactivity and database
management, computers and other
peripherals, sponsorship of the entire
project will also be highly appreciated!Get involved with eParliament.org! Pray for our work! Contribute financially! Sponsor us! Be involved in fundraising activities! Spread the words about eParliament.org among colleagues, friends and family members! Take part as a stakeholder!
