Given the unconstructiveness and inconsistency of the Ukrainian Government's actions regarding the real introduction of public control over its activities, the public is authorized to declare - the Electronic Register of Public Expertises WILL exist. It will be created by the public itself. The Coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations of Ukraine, consisting of the Creative Association "TORO", the Ukrainian Independent Center for Political Research, and the Public Association "Face to Face", in partnership with the Information and Analytical Center "Public Space", is starting work on creating a public version of the Electronic Register of Public Expertises.
For a year now, the Ukrainian Government has been unable to fulfill its own decision and create the Electronic Register of Public Expertises. Its existence was directly provided for by the Cabinet of Ministers Resolution on introducing the Procedure for facilitating public expertise of executive authorities' activities, adopted back on November 5, 2008 (No. 976). Moreover, among the latest anti-crisis initiatives of government officials, the following can be singled out - to eliminate the Electronic Register of Public Expertises as such. The officials' train of thought in this case is approximately as follows - we'll save the state money and get rid of the headache in the form of public reporting on our activities.
What does the resource give to the public?
With the appearance of the Electronic Register, you:
- will know what the executive power is actually doing in your region, - will know everything about what most concerns public experts in your area; - will be able to quickly find experts in the field you are interested in; - will understand the actual scale of the problem you plan to tackle; - will be able to independently conduct a public expertise of the actions of government bodies; - will be able to personally control the work of officials.
What is needed for this?
Work on creating the resource has already begun. It is expected that this will be not only a catalog of the results of all public expertises conducted in Ukraine with an interactive search and sorting system, but also a maximally practical and at the same time educational resource for all those who wish to conduct such an expertise. Therefore, an interactive module of the resource is already being developed, using which anyone will be able to understand all the stages of conducting a public expertise and, in essence, perform an expertise without leaving their computer.
How can you help?
It is extremely important for us to know precisely your opinion on how such a resource should look, what components it should contain, and also what exactly it should be oriented towards. We are convinced that you have the most important thing that may be needed at this stage - your own experience of interacting with government bodies and the desire to share this experience.
Therefore, we invite you to join the team of developers and, by November 1, 2009, send to the initiators' email address your vision of the structure and content of the Internet resource. Please note that by your own participation in discussing the concept of the site, you will not only really improve its content and form, but also save the time and nerves of many public activists - future users of the resource.
You can familiarize yourself with the preliminary format of the Internet resource by downloading the corresponding document (in the attachment). We expect your thoughts and recommendations at the address site@toro.org.ua by November 1, 2009.
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ELECTRONIC DESKTOP OF A PUBLIC EXPERT
Brief description of the Internet resource's capabilities
GENERAL INFORMATION The site is a multimedia document consisting of web pages united by content, which have a common structure and navigation. The site may include text, graphics, sound, video, animation, and may contain hyperlinks to other documents. The site will contain two main parts: the general part serves to present information to every Internet user; the administrative part serves to manage the General part of the site, edit and add information to the site. The administrative part is password-protected and accessible to one or a group of Internet users. General part The main task of the General part ─ is the convenient presentation of information. The main part includes graphic-text pages, a navigation menu for easy movement through the site's pages. The site's pages are divided into two types: informational ─ pages on which textual or graphic information is placed. These include pages about the project, contact information, and others. programmatic ─ pages that ensure the operation of special functional capabilities of the site. These include pages: feedback form, news, and others. Administrative part The main task of the Administrative part is managing the General part of the site. The Administrative part includes an intuitive interface that allows changing the content of Informational pages, adding new pages, adding new items to the main menu of the site, and making other changes.
PAGES AND MENU OF THE SITE
Information blocks The block "Conducting a public expertise step by step" will contain a list of the main actions (stages) that a public activist must perform when conducting a public expertise. When the user selects one of the stages, a block appears with links to sections (parts) of the site relating to that stage. The block "Private office of the public expert" is the electronic desktop of a public activist when conducting a public expertise. When the user selects this block, a set of menus appears relating to various stages of conducting a public expertise. By filling in information for each of the stages, the user thereby forms a database for these stages of the public expertise. Provided that the user of the block, when filling in one or another work field of the block, selects the option "Make available to all", the data specified by the user becomes available to other users who are at this stage of the expertise. The block "Success stories of public experts" will contain information about already completed public expertises that were posted on the site by public activists and received the status "published". The block is filled through users filling in the corresponding fields of the block "Private office of the public expert". The block "Get a consultation on conducting a public expertise" will contain a link to the feedback form, with the help of which a message can be sent. The message will be addressed to the site administrator (provided that the user has not selected any of the sub-rubrics of the context menu) or to a consultant on conducting a public expertise in one of the directions ("access to information", "expertise planning", "choice of analysis methods", "writing an analytical document") The block "Tag cloud" will contain a list of keywords most frequently used by site users. At the same time, it is considered that the more often a particular keyword is mentioned, the larger its size relative to other words. The block "Latest instructions" will contain a list of keywords most frequently used by site users. At the same time, the more often a particular keyword is mentioned, the larger its size relative to other words. The block "What is a public expertise?" will contain general information about public expertise, legislative acts regulating the application of this tool, as well as other information on this topic.
Sections of the main menu Home – will contain the most important information blocks and the main menu of the site. About the project – will contain information about the project, its implementers and donors, as well as about the main opportunities that the application of public expertise provides. News – will contain site news, which can be posted by registered users. Completed expertise – will contain information about already conducted public expertise, information about which (expert conclusions) will be provided by registered public activists. Library – will contain electronic publications that in one way or another relate to the topics of the Internet resource. Contacts – will contain contact information about the site's authors Map – will contain information about the main sections of the site Our instructions – will contain a set of simple and maximally complete instructions that a public activist must perform at one or another stage of the public expertise. Examples of documents – will contain a list of samples of the main documents that a public activist can use at one or another stage of the public expertise. Laws to help – will contain a list of the main provisions of normative-legal acts that it is advisable to use at one or another stage of the public expertise. Experience of others – will contain information about the actions of other public activists (users registered on the site) who performed similar stages of the public expertise. Who can help – will contain a list and contacts of state institutions, non-governmental and expert organizations that can help at this stage of the public expertise.
GENERAL CAPABILITIES OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE PART OF THE SITE
The administrator can: add, block and delete new site users for each stage of the public expertise, create one or several categories by which all information relating to that stage is grouped add and edit information filled in by users across all sections of the site, including the block "Private office of the public expert" add and edit news, assign news to various stages of the public expertise or to users add and edit information, including attached files, relating to one or another stage of the public expertise add and edit documents in the library
The user (registered visitor) can: add, edit information about themselves or completely delete their account profile maintain the block "Private office of the public expert", including adding and editing information relating to the user's performance of one or another stage of the public expertise download information posted in one or another section relating to one of the stages of the public expertise add comments upload electronic documents to the library add and edit news, assigning the news a signature under their own account
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