E-participation

These pages form an archive of material related to evoting, and have not been updated in some time. I may return to them one day, if and when the British government decides to pursue evoting again.

A red herring dressed as reform – article in Public Finance magazine from Jamie Bend of the Institute of Public Policy Research.

Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation, by Stephen Coleman and John Gotze, Hansard Society (PDF, 2.6MB).

Democracy Forum – hosted by the Hansard Society.

Demos Project – Edinburgh-based project to encourage citizen participation in local government.

Electronic Frontier Foundation ‘E-voting’ Archive – contains many resources on e-participation.

E-democracy – UK government website.

e-participation in England and Wales – examples provided by IPPR, with links to local authority websites.

e-participation in local government – Institute of Public Policy Research report (PDF, 144KB).

Hansard Society e-democracy programme

International Teledemocracy Centre – at Napier University in Edinburgh.

Leeds University Online Digital Democracy Group – developing web-based Geographical Information Systems for Public Participation in environmental decision making.

Logged Off? How ICT can connect young people to politics – a Demos study. You can access the press release and executive summary.

Nuffield Curriculum Centre e-participation page.

OpenDemocracy

YouGov – a commercial Internet polling organisation.

Young TransNet – ‘Young TransNet uses IT and the Internet to assist children and young people in transport research and action.’

Virtual Society project. Now ended, but materials still on website.

Voxpolitics – blog and articles on e-democracy.