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Building the Virtual Town Hall: Civic Architecture for Cyberspace
06/10/2009
The social web presents both a challenge and an opportunity. It is opening up new avenues for communication and deliberation at the same time as creating new social norms and expectations. The question stands then as to how should Local Government respond and is there an opportunity to use this growing interest in social networking tools to address our major problem of democratic deficit. Read full report....
 
 
Opportunities for Petitions: White Paper
14/09/2009
The democratic deficit is a major problem for Swedish Democracy and something that Local Authorities are taking action about. Petitioning is a simple democratic mechanism which is easily understood by Citizens. They are by definition non-deliberative and this simplicity makes it an ideal starting point for a programme of democratic engagement. Read full report..
 
 
Making technology work for Participatory Budgeting
01/04/2009
There are strong underlying social and political reasons driving the empowerment agenda – which means that empowerment of citizens to get involved in the decision making process is an idea whose time has come, and it is here to stay. Read full report..
 
 
EParticipate Evaluation Report
01/09/2006
The eParticipate project was set-up to help Local Authorities to use webcasting to re-engage citizens in their democratic process. This evaluation report describes the results of the project for the benefit of Local Authorities wishing to consider implementing webcasting of their democratic processes. Read full report..
 
 
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