Sunday, April 6, 2008

#1 - Thoughts on evaluating e-Democracy/Participation/Regulation websites

Our first assignment is to find 3-4 websites to evaluate on 4-5 criteria that our team will select.

My first observation comes from www.e-democracy.org. Their mission is:

Expanded participation and stronger democracies and communities through the power of information and communication technologies and strategies.

One of their goals is:
Engagement: Strengthen, expand, and diversify engagement through effective and meaningful online discussions and information exchange on public issues

I think the free forum service they host works toward this goal nicely.

What seems interesting is that e-democracy.org has helped develop (with other organizations including http://onlinegroups.net/) an open-source collaboration server.

More later.

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