
Yulia Tymoshenko announced the launch date of two unique Internet projects, 'the Ideal Country' and 'Electronic democracy', during the party convention. Both projects are not some pre-elections venture, their only purpose is "to bring intellectual capabilities of people and state together".
"I want to ask: does the state consider any number of ideas by the people of intelligence, when constructing its programs? As the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, I can answer this question: no way! Such ideas or suggestions are never taken into account. Why? Because there are no effective methods of using the peoples’ intelligence in creating the
"Today we developed special on-line technologies allowing 'the ideal country' as we all understand it to be built using the people’s ideas. It means we will get the well-articulated, high-quality strategy of the country’s development, once these projects are started and all the information needed to use them is given to the people," she declared.
According to Tymoshenko, the first of these two on-line projects, 'the Ideal Country', will start running in a month.
"It is the powerful portal where people can freely communicate with each other. Participants have all the means to make a suggestion, to vote, to analyze and discuss," she said. "In 3 or 4 weeks this program uniting the state and the people will start functioning to make the
Besides, another idea of Yulia Tymoshenko, 'Electronic Democracy' project is devised to allow every citizen to take part in law-creating activity at state level.
"Let us honestly answer the following question: does any enterprise, academic establishment or thinking person, have an ability to make a comment or suggestion to the existing laws or to the project of a new law, which will be taken into account by the Parliament? No. Such model is non-existent today. Our Deputies are separated from the society. Do we have any new bills analyzed by the society today? No, not ever. Therefore, our political force will establish a reliable, permanent connection with the society. It will get an instrument to create bills, to correct and to improve them, using innovative technology to make sure not a single remark on the latest bill would not be lost," she noted, presenting this new project.
"Today we are ready to present our 'Electronic Democracy' project to the people of
"This way our faction will guarantee the people’s right to take part in legislative process on the end level of the law-creation," – she said.
Yulia Tymoshenko made clear that these projects will not stop functioning after the elections in March, 2006.
"I would not want to create an impression that we do anything barely in order to win the elections. We will not stop to improve our understanding of the
During the press conference after the party convention Tymoshenko made it clear once again: "Bringing in a vast community of highly intelligent people to participate in the development of



