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Frequently updated online resources with links and announcements directly related to e-democracy from across the Internet:

Democracies Online Newswire
http://www.dowire.org
DoWire is a major blog/e-mail announcement list on e-democracy, e-government and more.

E-Democracy and E-Government Blogs
http://www.dowire.org/feeds
Dozens of related blogs and news feeds

E-Democracy E-Book and related articles
http://www.publicus.net
Steven Clift's overview of e-democracy and dozens of articles with extensive links.

Development Gateway - E-Government
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/e-government
Also see Knowledge Economy, ICTs for Development

Multimedia Victoria's eGov Resource Ctr
http://www.egov.vic.gov.au
For links from a governmental perspective, select "EDemocracy" in the "Trends and Issues."

Social Science Information Gateway
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/politics
Select "Political Communication" for numerous reports and articles.

Politics Online
http://www.politicsonline.com
Politicker and Netpulse e-newsletters contain news links focused on the political use of the Internet.

Teledemocracy.Org Links
http://itc.napier.ac.uk/ITC/links.asp
Also see their publications and toolkit.

UK's E-Government Bulletin
http://www.headstar.com/egb
E-newsletter also covering "teledemocracy."

University of St. Gallen's EGov Centre
http://www.electronic-government.ch
Updated with new articles and links in many languages each week.

Government Online Environmental Scan
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/ig-gi/gs-cd/es-ae/es-ae_e.asp
Daily links gathered by Canadian Government

Content Villiage - eGov Resource Centre
http://www.content-village.org/articles.asp?id=170
Resources from across Europe and beyond

Politik-Digital's E-Demokratie
http://www.politik-digital.de/edemocracy
German perspective and analysis

NetPolitique
http://www.netpolitique.net
French newsletter and resources

EGov Blog Roll
http://slashdemocracy.org/gotzespace
Dr. John Gotze's weblog includes extensive e-gov blog links.


Version 3.0, March 23, 2006 - Current version at:
http://publicus.net/articles/edemresources.html
Compiled by Steven Clift, http://publicus.net

Brief E-Democracy Definition

E-democracy represents the use of information and communication technologies and strategies by democratic actors within political and governance processes of local communities, nations and on the international stage. Democratic actors/sectors include governments, elected officials, the media, political organizations, and citizen/voters. 

To many, e-democracy suggests greater and more active citizen participation enabled by the Internet, mobile communications, and other technologies in today’s representative democracy as well as through more participatory or direct forms of citizen involvement in addressing public challenges. – Steven Clift

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Quick Links to Select Topical Resources

Online Consultation
http://www.publicus.net/articles/consult.html
http://www.pwgsc.gc.ca/onlineconsultation
http://www.bowlingtogether.net
http://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/eDemocracy.htm
OECD's Citizens as Partners Guide, etc.
http://www.deliberative-democracy.net/
E-List: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/consult

Leading Governments on E-Democracy
http://www.publicus.net/e-government
http://www.e-democracy.gov.uk
http://www.getinvolved.qld.gov.au  - more
http://dowire.org/wiki/UK_highlights
http://dowire.org/wiki/Briefs
http://www.governments-online.org


Parliaments Online – Representative E-Democracy
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/cip/ciphome.htm
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/nalit
http://www.congressonlineproject.org
http://dowire.org/wiki/Online_Committee_Room


Electronic Voting
http://www.social-informatics.net/evoting.htm
http://www.calvoter.org/issues/votingtech
http://www.upassoc.org/upa_projects/voting_and_usability
http://www.votingtechnologyproject.org/links.htm
http://lorrie.cranor.org/voting/hotlist.html
E-List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/upa-evoting
E-List: http://lists.hss.caltech.edu/listinfo/votingtech

Online Campaigning
http://www.ipdi.org
http:/www.politicalweb.info
http://www.voxpolitics.com/primer.shtml (UK)
http://www.campaignadvantage.com
E-List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/do-campnet

Online Advocacy and Lobbying
http://www.backspace.com/action
http://www.network-centricadvocacy.net
http://www.policymagic.org/electron.htm
http://www.npaction.org/article/articleview/98
http://www.benton.org/publibrary/toolkits/stratcommtool.html
http://www.techsoup.org/articlepage.cfm?ArticleId=184
http://www.summitcollaborative.com/resources.html
http://news.gilbert.org/gem
E-List:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/electronicadvocacy

E-Government Research
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/soccul/egov/index_en.htm
http://www.digitalgovernment.org
http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/chapter/140
http://www.ctg.albany.edu
http://www.demo-net.org

Future of (Political) News Online
http://www.ojr.org
http://www.poynter.org/subject.asp?id=264
E-List: http://poynteronline.org/content/content_view.asp?id=9380

Impact of Weblogs, Social Software
http://joi.ito.com/joiwiki/EmergentDemocracy
http://www.theisociety.net
http://www.mysociety.org

E-List = E-mail discussion/information exchange lists.

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