enacted. Similarly from when he was elected, each year president Obama answers the 10 most voted questions asked by people on YouTube.

On the other hand, trying to deeply integrate more people in the legislative process has been hardly successful. In Russia an experiment in legislative participation drew, in just 5 weeks, about 16,000 registered active participants who posted 21,000 proposals and comments, and cast 40,000 votes. The total number of visitors reached 1.5 million. The simplicity of the site design did not permit the users to efficiently search, comment and work upon the proposals of others; most proposals were simply a repetition of others. In the end the Minister had to employ people just to sort through and integrate the proposals, and the Russians had to trust thattheir minister was acting in their best interest. It was not for a lack of political will that the minister had to step in (spending more money), it was a lack of technical capabilities!

In the USA, Obama used a private tool (MixedInk) to ask for people’s participation in drafting a request on recommendations on Open Government. People now could write alternative proposals, search for what others had written, integrate it in their draft, and support the proposals they liked. Although the tool was was very well explained in video tutorials, this was also hardly a success. The most successful discussion had 110 people participating, with a final document written by a single person and supported by 63 others. Hardly could this be seen as representative of all the