Category: e-Democracy

Yesterday, the Danish minister of Information Technology and Reaseach, Ms Birte Weiss, handed over a number of prizes in Best on the Net.
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Sweden: Åke Grönlund’s Teldok-report IT, demokrati och medborgarnas deltagande is at last available. The 3.2MB download of a PDF-file is a bit of a hurdle, but it is an important report.

Dan Jellinek’s newsletter: ACCESS TO INFORMATION ON THE RISE
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Swedish: Andreas Jarblad uppsats i statsvetenskap vid Luleå tekniska universitet.
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In his (her?) E-Government vs. E-Democracy, J.H. Snider attempts to answer this question. But is it the right question to ask? Maybe. Who’s to blame then? The e-voting people, I’d say! And the online campaigning people too. I’m soooooo tired of e-voting and e-campaigns.

Advogato: Voting Systems Standards: Available for Public Comment. “For those who aren’t completely sick of hearing about voting and voting systems, the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) just posted the latest version of their Voting Systems Standards (VSS) online for public comment. The original US VSS (1990) were only available in hardcopy format, so few people ever saw them. By making the revised draft available online, the FEC is taking a positive step forward and will likely benefit from having “many eyes” helping to improve the VSS.”

A while ago, KableNet brought an article about consultation fatigue among Northern-Irish citizens. In Sweden, one would probably rather talk about polling fatigue. The Swedish Minister for Democracy, Britta Lejon, called this “SIFOcracy” (SIFO was the name of Sweden’s “MORI”, that is, a survey institute).
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The International Journal of Communications Law and Policy has a special issue about e-democracy, which has three very interesting articles: Which Technology for which Democracy? Which Democracy for which Technology? by Benjamin R. Barber; ICTs and the Future of Democracy by Ignace Snellen; and The Democratic Potentials of Interactive Information Technologies Under Discussion – Problems, Viewpoints and Perspectives´by Olaf Winkel.

Papers Portal – Practical Theory, Public Participation, & Community Workshop Civic Discovery and the Three “Cs” of Public Participation: Consultation, Consensus, and Collaboration by Gregg B. Walker.
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Sara Chapman’s Electronic Democracy is a good read!
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