I recently publish a short article on government, the Internet, and
democracy as part of an excellent 47 page collection to be published
online shortly by the U.S. federal government.
For the short and long versions, a link to the General Service
Administration's newsletters, or to be notified via DoWire.Org about the
GSA's online release of the full collection, see:
http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=383
Also, I am always interested in learning about examples that check off
these steps from Germany and other parts of Europe. Drop me a note with
examples: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In summary:
Ten Practical Online Steps for Government Support of Democracy
1. Timely, personalized access to information that matters.
2. Help elected officials receive and sort, then better understand and
respond to e-mail.
3. Dedicate at least 10% of new e-government developments to democracy.
4. Announce all government public meetings on the Internet in a uniform
manner.
5. Allow citizens to look-up all of their elected officials from the
very local to national in one search.
6. Host online public hearings and dialogues (or “e-consultations” as
they are known outside the U.S.)
7. Embrace the rule of law by mandating the most democratically
empowering online services and rights across the whole of government.
8. Promote dissemination through access to raw data from decision-making
information systems.
9. Fund Open Source sharing internationally across e-government.
10. Local up – Develop a strategic approach to building local democracy
online.
Sincerely,
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.Org Chair and Ashoka Fellow
Editor, Democracies Online Newswire - DoWire.Org - join 2500 members from:
http://dowire.org/wiki/Newswire
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