Dear all, I am looking for studies of online public consultation processes, either in the context of e-democracy or in commercial contexts. Furthermore, are you aware of free/open source systems for that purposes? I will collect your answers and make them available to the list asap. Thank you very much for your help! Katja PS: A short remark to my last question: I still owe the list a collection of replies to the question of the terminology origins and usage of "informatisation" and I am still working on this, since there has been opening up a whole universe of literature that I was not aware of.... (e.g. teleworking in the 1980s.....)... --- Dr. Katja Mayer Department of Social Studies of Science and Technology University of Vienna, Austria http://homepage.univie.ac.at/katja.mayer