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EE: Tallinn city and Estonian Technology College fund poll and referenda application
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1 September 2010
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Open source | EUPL | OSOR community | forge | petitions | eID | java | infrastructure | Diara | polls | referendums | public inquiries | electronic votes | eIdentity cards | JdigiDoc | Openxades project
Diara is an open source application that allows public administrations to use the Internet in order to organise polls, referenda, petitions, public inquiries as well as to record electronic votes using electronic identity (eID) cards; its first version went online at the end of August 2010.
The application was developed with the support of the city of Tallinn and of the Estonian College of Technology and was made available at the OSOR Forge, the OSOR's software development website.
"We just finished the registration, and we are now starting to upload the code of the application, including the English documentation" says Hillar Põldmaa, one of the developers of Diara. The Estonian version of the application is already available on search engines' forge.
The application is written in Java and thus requires a Java application server and is developed by an Estonian Information Technology (IT) security firm. It uses JDigiDoc, open source Java libraries, developed by the Openxades project.
According to Mr. Põldmaa, Diara was used for the first time in March 2010 when the city of Tallinn wanted the citizens' input on cultural spending. It was used by a selected group of cultural and IT specialists to prioritise between spending on a local concert hall or a local theatre.
Põldmaa says that "citizens will be able to use Diara for the first time in January 2011". "We are still looking for a suitable poll, probably something related to Tallinn being the cultural capital in 2011", he adds.
Currently, Diara works only with the Estonian eID card. However, Põldmaa hopes that developers of other eID cards will soon join the project. "We hope that our project will be used in other European countries too. That is one of the reasons for which the software is published using the European Union's public software licence, 'EUPL'. We choose that licence ourselves. It best suits our project, for it is available in all but one European languages", he concludes.
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