Civic republicanism and active citizenship
A great article by Bernard Crick in On Line Opinion (an Australian journal).
Topic
Democracy
A collection of 78 issues
Civic republicanism and active citizenship
A great article by Bernard Crick in On Line Opinion (an Australian journal).
How far people engage online
Some interesting stats here on what levels of participation/content creation different net users reach. (via Paul Evans).
The Long Tail of Participation
Interesting blog post on the Guardian’s technology blog about how democracy can be supported online. Astonishing fact: UN resolutions can’t be searched by Google because they use session-specific URIs.
3rd of May
VOTE!
People have died for it.
E-democracy conference, Strasbourg
Earlier this week I attended a Council of Europe conference on participation and electronic democracy. It was a very interesting event, attended by people from most Western European countries (no Central or Eastern Europe, although Estonia was mentioned as an example of good practice at the national level). The EU,
Council of Europe report on Democracy
From March. Link.
Reading papers and knowing about your governor
Wonkette reports a Pew Research survey on the political awareness of consumers of different sorts of media.
Dreadful news
Chris Lightfoot, MySociety’s first developer and all-round e-polymath, has died unexpectedly. He was 29. R.I.P.
Two examples of how useless Internet debate is
Exhibit A: the comments on an Observer article claiming that climate change exists. All in agreement with the Channel 4 lunacy about climate change being a big hoax, plus personal invective at the author and RANDOM capitalisations to SHOW that there is GREAT CONSPIRACY afoot. Thank you, representative sample.
Exhibit