Ten Practical Online Steps for Government Support of Democracy - Request for Related Research
I recently publish a short article on government, the Internet, and democracy as part of an excellent 47 page collection to be published online shortly by the U.S. federal government. For the short and long versions, a link to the General Service Administration's newsletters, or to be notified via DoWire.Org about the GSA's online release of the full collection, see: http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=383 If members of AOIR have recently published research on any of these steps, please zip me a copy: clift@publicus.net In summary: Ten Practical Online Steps for Government Support of Democracy 1. Timely, personalized access to information that matters. 2. Help elected officials receive and sort, then better understand and respond to e-mail. 3. Dedicate at least 10% of new e-government developments to democracy. 4. Announce all government public meetings on the Internet in a uniform manner. 5. Allow citizens to look-up all of their elected officials from the very local to national in one search. 6. Host online public hearings and dialogues (or “e-consultations” as they are known outside the U.S.) 7. Embrace the rule of law by mandating the most democratically empowering online services and rights across the whole of government. 8. Promote dissemination through access to raw data from decision-making information systems. 9. Fund Open Source sharing internationally across e-government. 10. Local up – Develop a strategic approach to building local democracy online. Sincerely, Steven Clift E-Democracy.Org Chair and Ashoka Fellow Editor, Democracies Online Newswire - DoWire.Org - join 2500 members from: http://dowire.org/wiki/Newswire
The full set of "How E-Government Is Changing Society and Strengthening Democracy" articles is now online. I put the long links in my blog post here: http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=383 Again, if this interests you, check out some of the open and proposed online communities of practice from: http://groups.dowire.org Here is the table of contents from their PDF version: Lead Article New Opportunities for Involving Citizens in the Democratic Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Building Trust in Government E-Democracy in Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 MAPLight.org: Shining a Light on Money and Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Building Trust in Government in Brazil Through Electronic Voting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Stimulating Citizen Engagement in Government: Hampton, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Online Citizen Participation Service in Korea . . . . . . .11 Engaging Citizens EPA: Engaging Citizens Through E-Government . . . .13 Gainesville Police Department Engages Citizens and Enhances Public Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Open House Project: Helping Congress Define Transparency Reforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 So You Want to Podcast? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Technology Matching Fund: Helping Seattle’s Residents Help Themselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Generational E-Democracy in Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Australia’s Principles for ICT-enabled Citizen Engagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Public Comment E-Petitions and Two-way Communications with the British Prime Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Citizen Communities Compel Change for E-Grant Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 The Great Lakes Water Quality Web Dialogue . . . . . . .27 Engaging Your Public in Today’s World . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Think It’s Easy to Balance the State Budget? Click Here. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 E-Democracy in Action: Locally Driven Conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Using Social Media Federal Blogging Is Poised to Take Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Uploading Democracy: Candidates Field YouTube Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 CDC in Second Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Government Information Outreach in Social Media and Virtual Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Government Participation in Social Networks: Joining the Conversation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 Getting to Mature E-Democracy Click-Through Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 Ten Practical Online Steps for Government Support of Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 E-Authentication: Safeguarding Citizen Identity . . . .46
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Steven Clift