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This article brings the idea of improving the quality of information systems to support democracy and public administration in Slavic countries between Western Europe and Russia through the use of a zonal constructed language that can successfully replace English and improve the overall quality of ICT used for e-Democracy assignments. The connection with education, from which everything begins, is also emphasised. This article describes the results of public research in the form of surveys and the first practical experiences of the authors. The idea of improving computer translations between national languages is also mentioned. It is assumed that language, education and e-democracy create a developing triad. Finally, this article describes the future development of this idea.
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The authors would like to express the support of the Czech research grant project SGS17/197/OHK4/3T/14 of the Czech Technical University in Prague and the Bulgarian research grant project 1/2017 of the Trakia University in Stara Zagora.
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Kocór, M., Yordanova, L., van Steenbergen, J., Merunka, V. (2017). Zonal Constructed Language and Education Support of e-Democracy – The Interslavic Experience. In: Katsikas, S., Zorkadis, V. (eds) E-Democracy – Privacy-Preserving, Secure, Intelligent E-Government Services. e-Democracy 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 792. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71117-1_2
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