For site visitors from Japan or at least reading Japanese, here is a series of articles inspired by the International Symposium on Local E-Democracy that I organized in July with the UK Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Interview
電子自治体ポータル : 第5回　e-デモクラシーを無視できなくなった地方議会

You can get the gist in with the Google translation into English.

Here are links to the other articles in what turned into a four part series by reporter Yuki Ishikawa:

Introduction
itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/govtech/20050926/221628/

E-Government and Democracy
itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/govtech/20050926/221629/

Blogging and Participation
itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/govtech/20050926/221646/

For those looking for more media coverage on the conference, an article in the U.S.-base Federal Computer Week, summed it up for you English readers: Britain outpaces the United States in e-democracy

And by the way, all the conference slides are available here.

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