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Anonymity, Accountability and Identity From: Shane McCracken Date: 2007 Jun 19 13:05 UTC Short link
www.bigvote.org.uk is the correct URL in case anyone does want a look.
-----Original Message----- From: Shane McCracken [mailto:shane@gallomanor.com] Sent: 19 June 2007 13:49 To: <email obscured> Subject: Re: [UKIE-EDem] Anonymity, Accountability and Identity In I'm a Councillor (www.bivote.org.uk) we're quite happy for young people to use pseudonyms. In fact we encourage it so that shy students feel emboldened to ask any question they want rather than what they feel they should ask. Last year we ran the event in Northern Ireland for the first time and were asked to enforce a zero-tolerance regime to sectarianism. We had to remove just two out of nearly 500 students from the site. Shane -----Original Message----- From: Smith, Ella [mailto:E.Smith@napier.ac.uk] Sent: 19 June 2007 11:54 To: <email obscured> Subject: Re: [UKIE-EDem] Anonymity, Accountability and Identity Hi, Reading back through these posts, it's interesting to see a very good argument for participants using pseudonyms matched by equally good arguments for participants to be very public about their identity. What's especially interesting is the similarity of the contexts - 2 independent local community forums. (Though I can see that they're different under the surface!) I'd be really interested to hear of people's experience of this identity/anonymity question within other contexts. For example - Local Issues Forums (UK link: http://www.e-democracy.org/uk/) ask all participants to use their own names. How well did this aspect cross the Atlantic? Also, I'd be interested to hear from those of you who've been involved in forums in particularly sensitive contexts - possibly some of the Irish e-consultations http://www.e-consultation.org/ might have required a specific approach. -Ella Ella Smith International Teledemocracy Centre Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Telephone: +44 (0) 131 455 2392 Fax: +44 (0) 131 455 2282 Email: <email obscured> http://itc.napier.ac.uk This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied or disclosed to anyone else outwith the University without the permission of the sender. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and any attachments are scanned for viruses or other defects. Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this email or any attachment, or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Email entering the University's system is subject to routine monitoring and filtering by the University. Member profile for Ella: http://groups.dowire.org/main/contacts/smithella ----------------------------------------- Group home for UK and Ireland E-Democracy Exchange: http://groups.dowire.org/main/groups/ukie Replies go to members of UK and Ireland E-Democracy Exchange with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/ For digest version or to leave UK and Ireland E-Democracy Exchange, email <email obscured> with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. UK and Ireland E-Democracy Exchange is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org. Member profile for Shane: http://groups.dowire.org/main/contacts/shanegallomanor ----------------------------------------- Group home for UK and Ireland E-Democracy Exchange: http://groups.dowire.org/main/groups/ukie Replies go to members of UK and Ireland E-Democracy Exchange with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/ For digest version or to leave UK and Ireland E-Democracy Exchange, email <email obscured> with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. UK and Ireland E-Democracy Exchange is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
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