[LINK] some linkers on e-democracy

[Tom Worthington]

At 05:33 PM 8/16/2006, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>From: Fwd: APO Weekly Briefing 16 August 2006
>
>>... How have those involved in the political process, including 
>>government, political parties, MPs and civil society groups used 
>>new technology ask Peter Chen, Rachel Gibson and Karin Geiselhart. ...
>>http://www.apo.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=94562 ...

They give On Line Opinion a good review:

"On Line Opinion is probably the best Australian example of a well 
planned (and increasingly successful) effort to provide a wide range 
of views and encourage deliberation. It is deliberately non-partisan 
and maintains not-for-profit status. These features, along with 
software that facilitates blogging and disccussion, attract 
sponsorships and diversity. It provides an important channel for 
intelligent articles from individuals who do not frequently gain 
access to mainstream media channels."

It has been an interesting process seeing how OO can use the 
technology <http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/>. A recent problem has 
been that my entries on the OO Blog  attracted junk postings.

ps: Rachel has finished up at the ANU's Centre for Social Research 
<http://acsr.anu.edu.au/>, is now at Leicester University 
<http://www.le.ac.uk/mc/staff/rkg10.html> working on e-politics.



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