RE:[OECD] How can the Internet make the World a better place

My name is Kim Sung Dong. I’m management of information systems major at Gyeongsang National University. I am a native of South Korea, and was born in the Gyeongsang Nam province. It gives me great pleasure to address the OECD conference and the other contributors from around the world. Currently, there are several different social orders that people live within, such as democracy and communism. I propose that the internet can aid the cause of direct democracy most effectively and reinvigorate an effective democratic revolution. I would like to put forward the idea of using the internet to cast votes in general elections. First a single system that can be applied in several countries could lower the cost of implementing an electoral system in new democracies. The second reason is that it can be supported by information dissemination and networking that would energize an electorate and raise voter participation. There are some considerations that must be taken into account, such as vote matching to each participant, the risk of vote fraud by identity theft or network tampering, and it is more difficult to verify the voting statistics without a physical system of tallying the votes. These put these considerations to the OECD, as the advantages of internet voting are very promising. Ultimately, it would help in establishing a global information service to handle to transparent function of elections, and the information service would itself be a system like WSIS or Gaid. But …

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