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Compared to the rest of the world, it seems that the Netherlands has been successfully putting pieces of the e-participation puzzle together. The main reason behind the Netherlands’ success in e-participation could be the country’s long-standing history of participatory democracy. The government has been consulting external stakeholders while developing policies and laws for quite some time. Now with e-participation, apart from improving citizen access to information and public services, the Dutch are promoting citizen participation in the decision-making process.The Netherlands first rank in the 2014 United Nations E-government Survey‘s ‘E-Participation Index’ is further proof that the Dutch are redefining democracy in the digital age.
