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To access links, see Steven Clift's blog: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=357 Post: Reports - Local Council e-Consultation Guide (Australia) and E-Democracy in Bristol (UK) First go down under, for an upside down view, or is that right side up?, with the 70 page Local Council e-Consultation Guide written for Australian local government put together by Jackie Bailey and Monika Merkes with Darebin City Council with Lucas Walsh at Deakin University. More details here. In general, Australia and New Zealand are great international B.S. filters (no wonder my posts get blocked ... hmmm) - they sit on the edge of the world always importing and mashing together ideas with a sharply critical eye. And next check out the 65 page E-Democracy in Bristol report produced by Kevin O'Malley et al. It has a snappy 2 or 3 pages per concept covering over 20 e-democracy tools/approaches (for something not quite so pretty, see the complementary 15 "how-to" briefs on DoWire.Org). The table of contents for both reports are below. Steven Clift E-Democracy.Org DoWire.Org P.S. Darebin hosts time-based discussions of important topics in the community with their eForum. Like E-Democracy.Org's Issues Forums they use GroupServer as well. And in Bristol there are two neighbourhood Issues Forum hosted with E-Democracy.Org (one quite active, the other needing a bit of a poke), so it was great to see the concept laid out distinctly in the guide. It is great to see people connect the dots thousands of miles/kms away from each other. * Here is the table of contents from the Local Council e-Consultation guide: 1. About this guide 5 2. What is e-consultation? 6 3. What can I use e-consultation to do? 7 4. Why should local councils do e-consultation? 11 5. The tools of e-consultation 13 6. E-forums: Key elements 14 7. E-forums: Examples 18 8. Darebin eForum: A case model 21 9. E-polls and e-surveys 28 10. Resources necessary for e-consultation 31 11. E-forums: Step by step guide 35 12. E-forums: Moderator guidelines 46 13. E-forums: Rules 54 14. E-forums: Legal issues 56 Appendix 1: Sample forum rules and disclaimers 57 Appendix 2: e-Forums: Frequently asked questions (for council staff) 64 Appendix 3: References and useful links 66 * Here is the table of contents for E-Democracy in Bristol: Section 1: Information, preparing for take-off 5 1.1 Webcasting 8 1.2 SMS and Email Alerts 10 1.3 Consultation Finder Database 13 1.4 Blogs 15 1.5 Games and Simulators 18 Section 2: e-Consultation, revving the engines 21 2.1 Quick Polls 24 2.2 Online Surveys 26 2.3 E-Panels 28 2.4 Discussion Forums 31 2.5 Deliberative Polls 33 2.6 Live (VIP) Messaging 35 2.7 Interactive Voting 38 2.8 Street Kiosks 40 2.9 SMS Text Voting 42 Section 3: e-Participation, learning to fly 45 3.1 E-Petitions 48 3.2 Pledges 50 3.3 Photo Sites 52 3.4 Video Views 55 3.5 Local Issues Forums 57 3.6 Online Campaigns 59 Conclusion Meeting the Digital Challenge 61 *** Democracies Online Newswire - http://DoWire.Org *** To comment/for links: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=357 To network: http://groups.dowire.org Submit posts: http://dowire.org/submit Member profile for Steven Clift: 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/r/topic/ 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.
