[LINK] E-Democracy

[Stephen Loosley]

At 07:20 AM 29/11/2006, Antony Barry wrote:


>On 28/11/2006, at 11:12 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>
>>There's nothing to stop anyone from using Yahoo Groups to have  
>>these sorts of discussions. The trick would be to get the info from  
>>Parliament and keep on top of it. It's a BIG job!

Yes!   Altogether an outstanding concept .. create and resource a
virtual data-scape, with genuine frank and free political discussion
of proposed laws, and all of these tools available. It should certainly 
be worth a PhD if done well  Maybe a beta wiki/moodle on a uni site?
 

>There are some tools -
>
>* Parliament has RSS feeds <http://www.aph.gov.au/rss.htm>
>
>* The Government Media Release Service does a daily listing of new  
>media releases from all portfolios  as a web page <http:// media.australia.gov.au/releases-by-portfolio.html>
>
>* Also as RSS feeds with a full listing from all portfolios, and for  
>specific listings from individual portfolios. <http:// www.australia.gov.au/media-rss>
>
>* Also email notifications which can be based on a key word search  
><http://media.australia.gov.au/notify.cgi?collection=releases>
>
>Then there are the parties -
>
>* Greens <http://www.greens.org.au/mediacentre/syndication/>
>
>* ALP <http://www.alp.org.au/media/rss.php>
>
>* The Liberal party <http://www.liberal.org.au/> and the National  
>Party <http://www.nationals.org.au/> don't seem to have any.
>
>Tony
>
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