My articles, speeches, and interviews from the last decade. 

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• Recent presentations/webinars on Local Citizen Media, Issues Forums, E-Transparency are listed from my Speaker page.
  
• Sidewalks for Democracy Online part of the Rebooting America book produced by the Personal Democracy Forum. Also available in PDF. - June 2008
  
• Ten Practical Online Steps for Government Support of Democracy - Short Version PDF, Wiki Version - Long Version with examples, Long PDF - October 2007
  
• Citizens 2.0 - My keynote speech to the International Association for Public Particpation - November 2006
  
• Challenging the Norms and Standards of Election Administration: Election Management Bodies and the Use of the Internet - Commissioned by the Election Standards Project of IFES/USAID - Draft released November 2005, Final released March 2007
• Networking Neighbors Online - My first short article on the DoWire wiki that you can add to or edit. August 2005.
• Issues Forum Guidebook - 60 Pages - I contributed significantly to this guidebook. February 2005
  
• E-Democracy Best Practice Briefs - I wrote or edited 15 short articles for the UK Local e-Democracy National Project.  I also edited a number of longer case studies. Released in April 2005, topics covered:
• Advanced Web Comment Forms 
• Budget Proposals Online 
• Content Syndication 
• Community Portals 
• Democracy Portal 
• Democratized Navigation
• Elected Official Videos 
• E-mail Response Policy 
• E-Newsletters
• E-Notification
• Geographic Personalisation
• M-Democracy - Mobile Content 
• SMS Citizen Input
• Voter Education Online
• Wireless Internet 
• Saving Democracy from the Information Age - Short opinion article - April 2004. Available for free print publication and/or translation.  Also available in: Italian
• E-Government and Democracy: Representation & Citizen Engagement in the Information Age - 40 page article for the UN with case examples - PDF/Word version announced March 2004
• Democratic Evolution or Virtual Civil War? - Speech to the World Summit on the Information Society's side event on the Promise of E-Democracy - Released January 2004
• Global E-Democracy Trends - 10MB PowerPoint Presentation highlighting innovative e-democracy applications around the world - Updated January 2004
• E-Democracy, E-Governance and Public Net-Work - A great overview article - September 2003, a complementary 7MB Power Point presentation is available from OneFish.
• Public Net-work: Online Information Exchange in the Pursuit of Public Service Goals (Word/RTF - 75K) - Prepared for the OECD E-Government Working Group, released publicly September 2003
• Start an Online Commons - Short How-to Article, Updated July 2003
• E-Democracy Resources - Two page flyer in - HTML, PDF, or Word. - Updated July 2002
• Q and A Interview with NGO.pl - October 2002
• E-Democracy: The Promise of the Future is a Reality Today - Keynote speech to NTT Data Inforum 2002, Tokyo, Japan. A Japanese version is available.
• E-Governance to E-Democracy: Progess in Australia and New Zealand toward Information-Age Democracy - Released online September 2002
• Online Consultations and Events - Top Ten Tips for Government and Civic Hosts - Released April 2002. Those interested in hosting a seminar should request the large Power Point presentation that goes along with this presentation.
• Representative E-Democracy - 12MB PowerPoint presentation given to the Parliaments on the Net conference - March 2002
• Q and A Interview with Online Community Report
• Q and A Interview with MediaMente (in Italian)
• Future of E-Democracy - The 50 Year Plan - Major speech to World Futurist Society - Released January 2002
• Q and A Interview with Politix.it (in both English and Italian)
• The Net Reponse - Reponding Online to Attacks on U.S., Prepare Your Family and Community Online
• E-Democracy E-Book: Democracy is Online 2.0
• An Internet of Democracy - Article from Nov. 2000 CACM Journal
• Top Ten E-Democracy "To Do List" for Governments Around the World 
• Top Ten Tips for "Weos" - Wired Elected Officials - (German version available)
• Enhancing E-Democracy in Our Communities - Brief 5 step plan for local communities
• Government Online Consultations - Conference Speech
• A Wired Agora - Minneapolis, Citizen Participation, the Internet and Squirrels - Article, Presentation, Audio
• A to Z for E-Government and Democracy - The Continuum of Government Online Support for Democracy, 1998 - In 2004, we are still stuck in the first part of the alphabet.
• The Public Internet Concept Draft -w/ Digitial Broadcasting/Datacasting 
• Open Groups - Vision Statement, (Also see Online Collaboration Links)
• Envisioning the Minnesota Public Internet  - Keynote Speech Transcript and Slides
• Democracy is Online 1.0 - Cover article for the April 1998 OnTheInternet magazine from the Internet Society
• Inside Web White & Blue 1998 - Presentation
• Democracies Online: Building Civic Life on the New Frontier - Presentation
• Universal Internet - Community Strategies - Presentation
• Using Electronic Communication for Political Discussions - 33 short tips
• Building Citizen-based Electronic Democracy Efforts - Long Article from 1996
• Digital Democracy: Minnesota Citizens' Guide for Government Information Policy - 1996 - I served as the chief editor of this highly collaborative 30 commission member produced report. Also in Word format.
  
• Putting Pen to Paper, Electronic Democracy, Write On! - Short, 1995
• North Star - MN Government Online IRM Plan - 1996
• North Star - History - 1994-1997
• Transnational and Intergovernmental Electronic Communication: Policy Questions and Implications of the Emerging Global Information Network - 1993