The article deals with developments of the Internet elections project in Norway. The project for the time being peaked with the 2011 municipal and regional elections, in which voters in ten municipalities were entitled to cast their votes over the Internet. The article firstly analyses Internet elections pilot projects and discusses results of surveys focused on key preconditions of the Internet elections within the framework of the digital divide concept. Furthermore, the article is concerned with results of the Internet elections in terms of several key variables: ratio of those, who cast their vote over the Internet depending ontheirplace of residence, party preferences and age. In spite of a high level of Internet penetration in Norway surveys and the Norwegian Internet elections have confirmed existence of two sub-types of digital divide: social divide and democratic divide., Miloš Brunclík., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
Pirátské strany jsou novým fenoménem v politice. První pirátská strana byla založena v roce 2006 ve Švédsku. Cílem tohoto článku je reflexe problematiky pirátských stran, shrnutí odborné diskuze, představení hlavních požadavků pirátských stran, přiblížení sympatizantů a voličů pirátských stran a také pokus o vysvětlení vzestupu pirátských stran. Pirátské strany lze považovat za druh liberálních stran, které se profilují v otázce svobodného internetu, komunikace a přístupu k veřejným informacím. Jejich vznik souvisí s rozvojem informační společnosti a informačních technologií, které přes nesporná pozitiva s sebou nesou podle pirátských stran riziko zneužití ve vztahu ke svobodě a soukromí jednotlivců., Pirate parties are new phenomena in politics. The first pirate party was established in Sweden in 2006 and inspi - red rise of pirate parties across the world. The aim of this article is to review discussion on pirate parties, describe major pirate issues and pirate parties’ sympathizers as well as to attempt to explain the rise of pirate parties. Pirate parties may be conceived as a sort of liberal parties, which are focused on free internet, communication and unrestrained access to public information. The rise of pirate parties is related to developments of information society and information technologies, which – in spite of clear advantages – pose a risk: they might be abused against individual freedom and privacy., and Miloš Brunclík.