Articles - Rebooting Democracy Series, Sidewalks for Democracy Online
From:
Steven Clift
Date:
Jun 23 02:57 UTC
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I've written one of my most important articles in years:
http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/node/52
Sidewalks for Democracy Online
Steven L. Clift
Government websites don’t have sidewalks, newspaper racks, public
hearing rooms, hallways or grand assemblies. There are no public forums
or meeting places in the heart of representative democracy online.
The question that this essay will ask and answer is not what can we do
to redesign democracy for the Internet Age, but, rather, why have we
decided to delete democracy from the most visited interface citizens
have with “their” government? And what are we going to do about it?
Read the full article or download in PDF from:
http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/node/52
Other articles: http://publicus.net/articles.html
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Along these lines, I invite people in the United States interested in
doing something about this to join my non-partisan online community of
practice for those in non-profits, government, media, and e-politics
called the US Democracy Online Exchange: http://dowire.org/us (It is
modeled after a similar space for e-minded democracy builders from the
UK: http://dowire.org/uk )
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The full Rebooting Democracy Series looks to be an interesting read:
http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/
It's Time to Reboot America.
The Personal Democracy Forum presents an anthology of forty-four essays
brimming with the hopes of reenergizing, reorganizing, and reorienting
our government for the Internet Age. How would completely reorganizing
our system of representation work? Is it possible to redesign our
government with open doors and see-through walls? How can we leverage
the exponential power of many-to-many deliberation for the common good?
Click on an individual author's essay, download the entire anthology, or
buy the book. However you dive in, join our conversation about these
ideas here and at http://www.personaldemocracy.com !
Esther Dyson wrote the forward:
http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/node/29