Digital Divide
The term 'digital divide' describes the fact that the world can be divided into people who do and people who don't have access to - and the capability to use - modern information technology, such as the telephone, television, or the Internet.
E-Voting
sometimes called electronic voting, online voting, or Internet voting is an election system that uses encryption to allow a voter to transmit his or her secure and secret ballot over the Internet.
Encryption
is the conversion of data into a form, called a ciphertext, that cannot be easily understood by unauthorized people.
E-democracy
(a neologism and contraction of "electronic democracy") is the utilization of electronic communications technologies, such as the Internet, in enhancing democratic processes within a democratic republic or representative democracy. It is a political development still in its infancy, as well as the subject of much debate and activity within government, civic-oriented groups and societies around the world.
Electronic direct democracy
is a form of direct democracy in which modern communication mediums are used to ameliorate the bureaucracy involved with referendums on many issues. Many advocates think that also important to this notion are technological enhancements to the deliberative process. Electronic direct democracy is sometimes reffered to as EDD (many other names are used for what is essentially the same concept).