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To access links, see Steven Clift's blog: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=288 Post: BBC NEWS - Scottish Parliament to host Microsoft Government Leaders Forum This BBC report on World leaders head for Edinburgh is really big news for e-democracy. A clip: Bosses at Microsoft opted for Holyrood after the Scottish Parliament's Presiding Officer George Reid spoke at this year's event in Lisbon. Mr Reid told delegates there how the parliament used new technology, such as the e-petitions system and webcasting, to connect with people. He said: "From my attendance at this year's forum in Lisbon, it is clear that the Scottish experience has much to share with the political institutions of Europe. ... A few years ago Microsoft invited me to chair a high profile panel on e-democracy at this conference in 2002. The folks in attendence tend to be the highest level e-government officials around, so hosting this in a parliament is a really big deal. In general, parliaments have allowed the administrative branch of government to invest in things "e" while often ignoring the power issues of not being relevant themselves to citizens online. Scotland is a relatively rare exception. I reviewed a number of "e-parliament" trends for the U.S. House with the Congressional Management Foundation last year and Scotland really stood out. Steven Clift http://dowire.org P.S. If anyone on DoWire is associate with a parliament or legislature and is not a member of the invite-only Parliaments Online Forum, drop me a note: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Democracies Online Newswire - http://DoWire.Org *** To comment/for links: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=288 To network: http://groups.dowire.org Submit posts: http://dowire.org/submit Member profile for Steven: http://groups.dowire.org/main/contacts/stevenclift ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail: http://groups.dowire.org/main/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/topic/136116 For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
