These handy “briefs” provide concise overview of key tools or strategies that can be used by governments and others without delay. Rather than wait for a separately budgeted e-democracy or Government 2.0 project, most of these ideas can be integrated into existing online effort.
The were commissioned by UK Local E-Democracy National Project and released in 2005 with a set of complementary case studies.
Each brief follows (most are written by Peter safe place to buy ambien online Davison and myself) the following outline:
- Definition:
- Summary:
- Rationale and Objectives:
- What can you use this feature for?
- Why use it? (Compared to other options)
- Benefits – To Various Groups
- Limitations and Cautions
- Successes – Successful Implementations
- Further Information
- Top Related “How-to” Online Resources
Briefs – on online features with examples (from Archive.org)
- Advanced Web Comment Forms
- Budget Proposals Online
- Content Syndication
- Community Portals
- Democracy Portal
- Democratized Navigation
- Elected Official Videos
- E-mail Response Policy
- E-Newsletters
- E-Notification
- Geographic Personalisation
- M-Democracy – Mobile Content
- SMS Citizen Input
- Voter Education Online
- Wireless Internet