Only rarely I forward intact a message from another site, usually this one, the Institute for Public Accuracy (which incidentally really needs a correlate in OZ). A big tip of the hat to Australian Julian Assange and his team at Wikileaks. Although I laugh heartily at Stephen Colbert, he is often the best comentary available on […]

As reported on Australian eDemocracy Special Minister of State Gary Nairn is calling for submissions on the idea of a Government Blog for Australia. Full marks to the government for coming up with the idea, but their timing couldn’t be worse. Submissions have to be in by 1 December, one of the possible dates for […]

Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia that is open to anyone to edit, unless you happen to work for a member of the US Congress. Then, ironically, you apparently have less rights than other people. There have been some recent examples of Congress staff tampering with their boss’s, or other’s, details. The most recent one involves […]

It’s nowhere near as good as the classic “Where’s Rudy” attack ad of Democrat Senator Paul Wellstone, but http://wherescasey.com/, the work of Republican Senator Rick Santorum is worth a look. “Where’s Casey” is an attempt to exploit the web in a humourous way, although I found it a bit boring poking around with my mouse. […]

So far online campaigning organisation GetUp! has concentrated on encouraging people to send emails and online advertisements to members of parliament lobbying them on various issues. This might have won them some new friends, but probably not many converts. It would have had little effect on Coalition MPs, who weren’t going to follow the electronic […]

The media is the other missing ingredient in the eDemocracy tiramisu (see my blog post of 16th August for the context). That was part of the theme of a joint presentation by Terry Flew and me given on the third day of the eDemocracy conference. While it was joint, it was a two part presentation […]

Who or what is eDemocracy about? That’s a question I posed to a panel at the United Nations International Conference on Engaging Communities currently being held in Brisbane. I’ve been to a few conferences on eDemocracy recently and one thing always strikes me – there are generally no politicians there, apart from the ones filling […]

This post will probably cruel our chances of ever winning an ITOL Grant, but I just can’t resist. Information Technology On Line is a programme meant to provide development capital of up to $200,000 per project to eBusiness initiatives on a dollar for dollar basis. What On Line Opinion and National Forum do is eBusiness. […]