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Institutes, organizations, foundations and projects
Mary Parker Follett Foundation
Deliberative Democracy Consortium -
A network of researchers and practitioners working together to strengthen the field of deliberative democracy.
Information Renaissance -
a nonprofit corporation that promotes the use of the Internet to empower citizens to participate more fully in the functioning of the democratic state
America Speaks
National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
Fostering a world of conversation, participation and action
The Jefferson Center
Originator of the Citizens’ Jury Process
E-Democracy
International Association for Public Participation
British Columbia’s Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform Final Report
Viewpoint Learning Inc.
Canadian Public Research Networks: Public Involvement Network
The Center for Deliberative Polling
The Deliberative Democracy Project
The Center for Deliberative Democracy
Archon Fung’s web site
Fung is a leading scholar in deliberative democracy and citizen engagement
Participatory Democracy Group
The Loka Institute
DoWire.Org
Democracies Online
International list of consensus conferences with links
Danish Board of Technology (developers of consensus conferences) Methodology page
Toolkit Citizen Participation
A group of civil society (NGO) and Local government organisations from all over the world, working together to promote governance dialogue in local governance.
Citizens’ Juries
Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy
involve: creating a stronger democracy
Web Lab
A non-profit organization dedicated to developing innovative Web-based projects that bring fresh perspectives and new voices to the discussion of public issues.
Government Open Code Collaborative
A group of U.S. state and municipal governments and academic institutions encouraging the sharing, at no cost, of computer code, developed for and by government entities where the redistribution of this code is allowed .
Politicity.com
A project of the Institute on Governance. No longer being updated, but with useful references and sources.
The Walt Whitman Center
Civic Practices Network
Development Gateway
Democracy in Cyberspace Initiative
The Peoples Verdict
An early Canadian experience with deliberative dialogue, sponsored by MacLean's Magazine in 1991.
The Co-Intelligence Institute
UnChat
Bodies Electic llc
A software designed for promoting deliverative dialogue
byDesign eLab
Mobilizes knowledge media systems to support citizen engagement in e-governance, community advancement and cultural content creation.
International Center for Civic Engagement
Park University
Center for Democracy and Citizenship
Best Practices: Cases and Checklists
Diablogue
E-Governance Institute
Best Practices in Involvement
National Orphaned/Abandonned Mines Initiative
Guidelines and Checklist for Online Consultation and Citizen Engagement
Privy Council Office, Government of Canada
Dialgoue on Democracy: Summation of Best Practices and Key Ideas
U.S. Department of State
Governments
Australian Government
Information Management Office
Ontario, Office of the Corporate Chief Information Officer
Government of Canada, Policy Research Initiative
Citizens’ engagement award
Government of Canada, Department of Justice
Evaluation and Citizen Engagement
Public Works and Government Services Canada
Conference Report: "Online Citizen Engagement: A Pillar of Policy Development
Government of Canada
Canadian Rural Partnership Community Dialogue Toolkit
United Kingdom, Audit Commission
User Focus and Citizen Engagement: Learning from Comprehensive Performance Assessment, Brief 4
United Kingdom project
Local E-Democracy National Project
Online Presentations
Universität Trier
On e-governance in Canada
The Meaning of Meaningful Citizen Engagement, Julia Abelson
Citizen Involvement, Engagement and Agency: Clayoquot Sound
Online Engagement – A perspective from the Australian Government
Designing for Deliberative Democracy: Theory and Practice
Papers
The Citizens of Porto Alegre
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Citizens Juries: a radical alternative for social research
Tom Wakeford
Experiments in Empowered Deliberative Democracy:
Introduction, Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright
Experimenting with a Democratic Ideal: Deliberative Polling and Public Opinion,
James S. Fishkin and Robert C. Luskin
Deliberation and "Better Citizens",
Robert C. Luskin and James S. Fishkin
Teledemocracy vs. Deliberative Democracy: A Comparative Look at Two Models of Public Talk
By Scott London
"Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre: Toward a Redistributive Democracy,"
by Boaventura de Sousa Santos.
"Participation, Activism, and Politics: The Porto Alegre Experiment and Deliberative Democratic Theory"
by Gianpaolo Baiocchi
"Public Deliberation at the Local Level: Participatory Budgeting in Brazil,"
by Leonardo Avritzer
E-Government and Democracy: Representation and Citizen Engagement in the Information Age,
Steven L. Clift
Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer and Steve Brigham, “Taking Democracy to scale: Creating a Town Hall Meeting for the 21st Century,” National Civic Review, 9(4), winter 2002.
The role of information and communications technology in strengthening citizen participation and shaping democracy: An analysis of Mexico's initial experience and pending challenges
Toward best practices in environmental grantmaking: Strengthening community engagement and capacity at the local level.
Reconnecting the Public and the Public Sector: Promising Practices in Transforming Citizen/Government Relationships
Mark G. Popovich
Promise and Problems of E-Democracy
OECD
Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation
Stephen Coleman and John Gotze
Restoring Trust in Government: The Potential of Digital Citizen Participation
Mark Holzer et al.
Resources, Citizen Engagement and Democratic Local Governance
Mark Robinson
