I am now settling into my Ashoka Fellowship and I’ve emerged from E-Democracy.Org Board retreat all fired up. A number of bad colds slowed down my DoWire.Org pace considerably, but I’ve had the best ten days in months so … tell me something new. What are you working on? Anything new in your corner [...]

Ross Ferguson from the Hansard Society in the UK alerted me to their new report. Thanks Ross.
Steven Clift
e-democracy.org
dowire.org
From:
www.hansardsociety.org.uk/programmes/e-democracy/digital_dialogues
The purpose of Digital Dialogues is to assess the capacity of ICT to support central government’s communication and consultation activity (principally with the public but also with internal stakeholders).
Digital Dialogues takes technology as its focus and seeks [...]

Forwarded from our friends at IPDI (who also have a new blog): www.ipdi.org/Blog/
Speaking of blogs, if you’d like to review DoWire’s blog collection and help recommend additions/substractions drop me a note and see: dowire.org/feeds
Steven Clift
dowire.org
e-democracy.org
Dear Friend,
We here at the Institute for Politics, Democracy, & the Internet are looking forward to our upcoming Politics Online Conference [...]

What a great idea!
Steven Clift
e-democracy.org
dowire.org
From Syb Groeneveld at sg@kl.nl:
Digital Pioneers fund is searching for international projects Digital Pioneers provides expertise and financial support to innovative Internet initiatives of small-scale social organizations.
Starting in December 2002, the Fund has supported over 130 projects (out of 875 applicants). Average amount of support is euro 16.000. The theme [...]

Speaking of “Internet” voting, folks in Estonia showed me how they use their government IDs with strong encryption chips to vote in elections. Here is some information. Folks with standard chip readers in their computers insert their chip card government ID for all sort of government services (they will soon be used by [...]