[Air-L] Ten Practical Online Steps for Government Support of Democracy - Request for Related Research

Steven Clift slc at publicus.net
Thu Nov 15 05:35:28 PST 2007


The full set of "How E-Government Is Changing Society and Strengthening 
Democracy" articles is now online. I put the long links in my blog post 
here:

    http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=383

Again, if this interests you, check out some of the open and proposed 
online communities of practice from:
http://groups.dowire.org

Here is the table of contents from their PDF version:

Lead Article
New Opportunities for Involving Citizens
in the Democratic Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Building Trust in Government
E-Democracy in Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
MAPLight.org:
Shining a Light on Money and Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Building Trust in Government in Brazil
Through Electronic Voting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . .7
Stimulating Citizen Engagement in Government:
Hampton, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . . . . . .9
Online Citizen Participation Service in Korea . . . . . . .11
Engaging Citizens
EPA: Engaging Citizens Through E-Government . . . .13
Gainesville Police Department Engages
Citizens and Enhances Public Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Open House Project: Helping Congress Define
Transparency Reforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. .16
So You Want to Podcast? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. .17
Technology Matching Fund: Helping Seattle’s
Residents Help Themselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Generational E-Democracy in Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Australia’s Principles for
ICT-enabled Citizen Engagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Public Comment
E-Petitions and Two-way Communications
with the British Prime Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Citizen Communities Compel Change
for E-Grant Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . . . .25
The Great Lakes Water Quality Web Dialogue . . . . . . .27
Engaging Your Public in Today’s World . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Think It’s Easy to Balance the State Budget?
Click Here. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . . . . . . . .31
E-Democracy in Action:
Locally Driven Conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Using Social Media
Federal Blogging Is Poised to Take Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Uploading Democracy:
Candidates Field YouTube Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
CDC in Second Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . . .37
Government Information Outreach
in Social Media and Virtual Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Government Participation in Social Networks:
Joining the Conversation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. .40
Getting to Mature E-Democracy
Click-Through Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Ten Practical Online Steps
for Government Support of Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
E-Authentication: Safeguarding Citizen Identity . . . .46



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