Pages of Interest
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Guglielmo Celata (DEPP)
e-Dem (http://edem.democraziaelettronica.it) openpolis (http://www.openpolis.it)
OpenPolis has previously run sites that do things such as show how users compare in views to the differnet political parties in Italy. At the moment they have a major project in the TheyWorkForYou style under development. It is ambitious in that it aims to provide information about as many of the politcians in italy as possible (150,000 apparently). It wil also be a very important experiment in user-generated content as they are planning to let people submit quotes from politicians, information on jobs they have done in the past and so on.
Matthias Trenel (Zebralog)
http://www.zebralog.de/en/reports.php
Zebralog are specialist in online deliberation systems in Germany. They have also recently conducted an evaluation of the Bundestag petitions website.
Jan Schmidt (Research centre "New Communication Media")
Researcher at Bamberg working on social networks. His blog is mainly academic and partly personal. It is mainly in german, but there is an english feed at http://www.bamberg-gewinnt.de/wordpress/archives/category/english/feed/
Tobias Escher (Oxford Internet Institute)
PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Did research and technology behind http://governmentontheweb.org/ report about UK government websites.
Rob McKinnon
Freelance coder, creator of New Zealand parliamentary transparency site http://theyworkforyou.co.nz/ and working with UK parliament.
Richard Pope
Regular mySociety volunteer, civic activist in Brixton in London, and coder of several useful services including http://www.planningalerts.com which re-uses planning information to alert people when people apply to do building work near where they live.
Adrian Moraru
Part of the Romanian group at www.ipp.ro who run an impressively ambitious site focusing on voting, attendance, contacting MPs (including publishing mobile phone numbers) and much more, including whether the amount that parties say they spend on election propoganda matches the commercial price quoted by newspapers.
Lobke van der Meulen
Researcher and consultant at Stichting Nederland Kennisland http://www.kennisland.nl/en/index.html/ (Knowledgeland Foundation).The eDemocracy projects of Kennisland are Digital Pioneers http://www.digitalpioneers.org/ and e-Participatie http://www.eparticipatie.nl/.
Digital Pioneers is an arrangement of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to fund and support small social internet projects. Kennisland runs the project for the Ministry by selecting projects and support the initiators. In 2006 has the Digital Pioneers academy started support former Digital Pioneers further developing their project, for example by writing a good business model.
eParticipatie is a project of the Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs to experiment with eParticipation by funding projects, organise an eParticipation Conference in Amsterdam (15th November 2007), etc.
Sites recommended as good examples by the participants
- Description: Josta de Hoog's site showing who voted which way on votes, and what they were about, in the Dutch Parliament. Updated manually.
- Things that are good about this site:
- 1)Josta 'translates' the juridical texts and makes them easy to read.
- 2)In election times citizens can see how 'their' party voted and can make their vote based on that information, in stead of only on beautiful party promisses!
- Description: Dutch site dedicated to getting more information about back bench MPs in the Netherlands out. Includes interviews
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- 1)The site gives every MP a face not only the party leaders.
- 2)The site is built in cooperation with the MP's.
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- http://www.dnc.org/page/content/partybuilder/
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- Description: Part of the huge AmericaSpeaks programme, just starting to move online.
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- Description: Takes the techniques of parliamentary transparency websites and applies to to big NGOs in the UK, so people can find out whether they should donate.
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- Description: German Freedom of Information site. Not sure how well used it is.
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- Description: Sunlight Foundation funded site to makes it really easy to find out what sorts of companies are funding what sorts of politicians in the US
- Things that are good about this site:
- 1) Loads and loads of information about funding
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- Description: The wikipedia page which contains a list of all the known sites where people process and re-use information about parliaments and politicians around the world.
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- http://groups.dowire.org/groups/ukie <- The UK and Ireland eDemocracy discussion list
- Description: An open discussion list for people interested in what's going on in the edemocracy world in the UK and Ireland. It has public archives, so you can see what's been said in the past.
- Things that are good about this site:
- 1) It is a simple way of keeping up to speed with internet and democracy developments in the UK.
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- Description: Webpage for UK based eDemocracy event on 8th November
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- 1) The last two were the best formal events I've been to in the UK
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