"If you send an e-mail to a Member of the Romanian Parliament (MP), you have less than 10 percent chance to get a reply. That is, if the MP you are trying to reach has a public e-mail address to start with. Only a quarter of the representatives offers an electronic contact address. The conclusion from an e-mail response study by the e-democracy forum gives government a transparency-rating of only 0.29 (on a scale from 0 to 5). [...] The results are based on an complex analysis performed over the Internet, between 1 October and 30 November 2003. Two rounds of e-mails were sent to MPs to analyse their responsiveness. The e-mails contained questions about hot topics of the moment: the referendum for the New Constitution and the conclusions of the European Commission Country Report for Romania". The study can be found online (pdf).

Quelle: Bogdan Manolea: "Analysis e-mail response Romanian MP's": In: EDRI-gram 2.6, 24. März 2004