electronic democracy

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• - A primer on using the Internet for political activism.
  
• - Mindshare Internet Campaigns, LLC develops and implements online campaign strategies to help our clients use the Internet to organize, educate, and engage citizens towards meaningful off line action.
  
• - List of Internet sites with information about electronic voting--includes links to information about systems, protocols and risks; also includes links to information about direct democracy, vote-by-phone, and vote-by-mail.
  
• - A formal long-term nonprofit debating system that allows each user to create a political platform, and respond to the platforms of others.
  
• - Provides an online forum for users to write texts in furtherance of participatory democracy.
  
• - A nonpartisan citizen-based project, whose mission is to improve participation in democracy in Minnesota through the use of information networks.
  
• - John Gøtze's weblog covering news about e-democracy, e-government, and e-governance.
  
• - Maintains lists of e-mail addresses of political leaders and encourages people to write them regarding certain global issues.
  
• - Dedicated to helping journalists cover campaigns more in-depth by following the campaign money trail. It collects state campaign finance data from across the nation, and uses the data to build a search engine that allows reporters to track political cash
  
• - Steven Clift offers articles, commentaries, presentations, and mailing lists concerning campaign, elections, and the future of electronic democracy.
  
• - Web site provides links to a number of articles and news stories regarding the use of the Internet in both elections and politics.
  
• - web-based platform enabling fruitful and constructive debate between citizens and politicians with the intention of facilitating and encouraging "online-democracy".
  
• - A public interest group that seeks to improve elections by promoting campaigns in which the most useful information reaches the greatest number of citizens in the most engaging way.
  
• - Masters thesis relating US and European communications theory, including Habermas, and whether the Internet will create democracy in practice.
  
• - Political consulting firm providing tools for online campaigns. Includes a daily news and information service, and a journal of politics on the Internet.
  
• - The web site of the Global Democracy Movement dedicated to the creative use of modern technologies and face-to-face deliberative techniques that directly empower citizens to have authentic input into the political process.
  
• - This website re-organizes Federal Election Commission data into useful forms enabling viewer to follow the money.
  
• - A national research and advisory institute providing government and industry leaders with research and educational resources to help them transform public organizations through digital technologies.
  
• - Founded to educate the public, policy makers, and the media about technology-based social and political issues, and to promote access to and use of information technology as a tool for community organizing, outreach, and advocacy.
  
• - Online petitions regarding a wide variety of subjects are available for online signature. Also, for constituent letters, the site includes a search function that identifies issue-relevant public officials.
  
• - Seeks to highlight the ways candidates and campaigns used the Internet in 1998 and provides perspective on the positive and negative impacts that this powerful medium is having on the electoral process.
  
• - Works with government to develop information strategies that foster innovation and enhance the quality and coordination of public services.