REALIZING THE BARRIER TO THE PRACTICE OF E-DEMOCRACY IN VIETNAM

Abstract

E-government can make the Government more transparent in the public eyes and make the interactions between agencies and the public more convenient, and ideally, increase the public trust by facilitating public participation, leading the so-called e-democracy. Then, this hypothesis raises the question as to whether (and to what extent), e-government can accompany e-democracy, and in the case of Vietnam, the efforts to promote e-government are associated with the democratic performance of their political system? The intent of this paper is to provide answers to the questions of what constitutes the barriers to the development of e-democracy in the case of Vietnam. In doing so, I will first concentrate on research to answer the question about how the legal framework of e-government has been built, how citizens might connect with government via the Internet, to obtain information, to give comments, to elect or vote anything related to public issues.