The digital age is here and is generating a radical redefinition of the functioning of society, based primarily on the direct exchange capacity and the free provision of content and knowledge.
Democracy is not just a dialogue between political power and citizenship through representatives, but the Internet has generated a global information system and shared, where manipulation is increasingly difficult and the citizen is ceasing to be part of the undifferentiated mass to charge a new role.
In this new technological scenario is possible in a direct dialogue between the citizenry together and with public authorities, losing sense of the intermediary figure. It is not because of a change in the political marketing that puts in the hands of politicians new tools to convey their messages whether they Facebook or Twitter., Pecks, Tuenti. If, as seems, this is what I think are wrong. A representative democracy is run out of time and must comply with the new technological environment and become more participatory, more direct, more informational, consistent with the emerging society.
From this perspective, we want to tell the political parties, the Government ultimately our "representatives" that we are facing exhaust system, the dialectic of left and right is no longer a valid method for interpreting reality, but still have a responsibility to ensure the continuity of this essential conversation between power and citizens that began in the eighteenth century, updating the paradigm with new principles or redefining some not so new.
1 .- OPEN and OPEN ACCESS DATA (TRANSPARENCY).
A democratic state requires that the power is transparent, not citizens, so it is essential that the Act guarantees access of citizens to access public information (Open Access) through a short and simple procedure, and establish a system of Open Data (open), requiring the Administration to publish on the Internet all the information, even before someone's request, so that companies and professionals can use all the information that the administration manages to generate new services.
This involves the development of a true digital management without technological barriers that hinder the dissemination of information and also make it possible to turn services on citizens and not vice versa, as now, so are the services that are closer to the homes of citizens and firms of professionals.
2 .- FREEDOM AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS.
If something is essential in the information society is the freedom of communication which is not possible without ensuring the confidentiality of the same, however in recent times, under the pretext of security, of protection of children, of copyright ... not matter what the excuse, it is imposing a philosophy of supervision in the State observed that all citizens have their way of knowing if they are being watched or not. Thus warned of the need to reconsider, Law 25/2007, of 18 October, retention of data relating to electronic communications and public communications networks and the need to revise the rules governing the Sitel and all electronic surveillance systems to adopt the necessary measures to preserve civil liberties and curb abuses of executive power in the future.
3 .- LAW OF UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO INTERNET
Finland has become the first country that has made a constitutional amendment to constitutionally guarantee the principle called "Universal access" to Internet and freedom of access to information technology, communications, whatever the means or the geographic location of users, for this and to ensure equal opportunities in access to information, and the full enjoyment of social rights such as education and health is inescapable recognition of broadband as a fundamental right and set the minimum required of suppliers in the bandwidth, regardless of the access method chosen.
4 .- Net Neutrality.
Network neutrality is one of the great principles upon which Internet has been built. From the perspective of fundamental rights, net neutrality is equivalent to the principle of equality and non discrimination of information and advocacy is essential in the face of that fundamental rights are respected on the Internet and prevent future runs on the Internet control of a few.
5 .- CULTURE AND KNOWLEDGE.
In a period of rapid technological and social change as the current intangible property rights are under terrible stress and, although they must be respected and protected, measures taken to protect them can not ignore the fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression, privacy, secrecy of communications or data privacy.
Moreover the public domain meets an increasingly vital role in cultural participation and innovation, not in vain throughout history has been the rule, and remains the common quarry from which we extracted materials build a civilization and therefore must remain active, but does not provide protection to the creators that denying the rights of exploitation want to maintain the integrity of his work and his moral condition of the author or inventor, so it must be acknowledged that the licenses GNU public type, Copyleft, Creative Commons are eligible for protection judicial although there is no direct commercial damage to prevent someone from appropriating the invention of another.
6 .- OPEN GOVERNMENT.
The ultimate goal is a transparent and connected democracy that guarantees not only the citizens online access to data from the Administration, procurement, accounts and government spending, but also can promote citizen participation through consultation and comment on draft legislation to decentralize the political debate so that decisions concerning all be taken in the entire citizenry.
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