Ms. Guidance on Digital Communities and Democracy related Netprojects
Digital Communities,
Netprojects related to Democracy ,
Organizations ,
Resources in German,
Articles,
Miscellaneous
Ms. Guidance on Digital Communities and Democracy related Netprojects
Digital Communities,
Netprojects related to Democracy ,
Organizations ,
Resources in German,
Articles,
Miscellaneous
Association of the Digital Communities of Netherlands
Germany
International City Federation Muenster, Westfalen
The City of Bologna
Immigrazione straniera in Italia (Immigration in Italy), map
La Citta` Invisibile
The Sprawl!The Sprawl is a collaborative hypermedia environment distributed over several Silicon Graphics media servers in Honolulu - USA,Sapporo - Japan, and Sydney - Australia by SenseMedia Netcasting of Santa Cruz, California. The Sprawl is a virtual community where users chat, create web pages and extend the cyberscape in an unrestricted manner, creating sprawling virtual reality.
The World's first and largest public access web server and multi media cyberscape
The City of Palo Alto - Online
Metropolitan Austin Interactive Network
Minnesota E-Democracy
Telepolis A Luxemburg Goethe-Institut Project in cooperation with the 'Organisation-Commitee Cultural City Luxemburg'
Cyberiacafe
Kyiv FreeNet Kyiv FreeNet, is the first public-access community Internet Service east of the Elbe. "We are a community network with the goal of promoting the free exchange of ideas and a sense of community."
St. Petersburg OnlineFocus on Business and touristic matters
"New Democracy"
A political movement trying to reform and to rescue democracy.
Anticipating the consequences of current disparities, Digital Sojourn is focused on increasing the participation of people of African descent in computer mediated communication. Featuring resources for "inclusive" use of technology: Digital Sojourn
such as Serving the Community: A Public-Interest Vision Serving the Community
by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Support Democracy in China is a volunteer community organization based in Silicon Valley.
A pictorial history
"The Center's mission is to develop and advocate public policies that advance
constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies."
The Center For Democracy and Technology, based in WashingtonDC.
The electronic frountier foundation
The Action Alerts and special announcement archive gives you frequently updated information about the Internet Censorship Legislation, the Digital Telephony Surveillance Legislation and so on...
The Society for Electronic Access (SEA) "We believe that the world of computers and the communications links that bind their users together
(cyberspace) should be open to everyone." Well, shure...but to be honnest their page is as interesting as the statement below
Libraries, Networks and Democracy:
Government and the People in an Electronic Age
Libraries, Networks and Democracy: Libraries, Networks and Democracy: Government and the People in an Electronic Age Paper by Eric Wainwright
Mailboxnetzwerke Als Mittel Gesellschaftspolitischer Kommunikation
Studienarbeit von Heinz-Otto Hoppe am Institut fuer Journalistik der Universitaet Dortmund.
The Journal of Democracy
Since its inception in 1990, the Journal of Democracy (maintained by the Johns Hopkins University Press) has become an influential international forum for scholarly analysis and competing democratic viewpoints.
Left On Line
E-zine on "sharing information and ideas, developing political agendas, and participating in a continuous town meeting of the progressive community."
Special focus: government and democracy online Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine
A Plea for
Understanding--Beyond False Dilemmas on the Net by Charles Ess
On Virtualizing Government: A Design Science Approach by Kirby Urner ...The current trend artificially impoverishes government and the political life by not seriously exploiting the advantages of cyberspace. Predictably, government websites treat the browser as they would a member of the public happening to visit one of the federal buildings in Washington DC...
by Arthur Kantrowitz from Dartmouth College What is the "weapon of openness" and why is it the best weapon of a democracy?
Democracy ressources by Herbert Hrachovec at Philosophy Dept. of Vienna University1. Charles Ess: A Plea for Understanding--Beyond False Dilemmas on the Net
2. Fiona Steinkamp: The Ideology of the Internet
3. Paul Treanor: Why Democracy is Wrong
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau-"That government is best which governs not at all"
Cyberocracy is Coming by David Ronfeldt
Multi-Nationals as the New World Order by Rebecca Crowley
The Noam Chomsky Archive
Listen to what Noam has to say on the topic of "Prospects of Democracy"
(audio)"Chomsky has been unrelenting in his attacks on the American hierarchy... [He] is up there with Thoreau
and Emerson in the literature of rebellion." - Rolling Stone
Noam Chomsky on the political impact of
our new information technologies
Democracy & The Internet
"What is the nature of democracy on the internet?" An XL Collection of articles, links...
Political Science Virtual Library
Many useful links
Sumeria/Politics
Bibliography: Democracy and The Internet: Most of the proposals do not discuss the two topics together, but they might help
develop the framework.
Click here for Insights about using the Internet for grassroots democracy
The Left Side of the Web
For reasons of objectivity check out
The Right Side of the Web, if it wasn't serious, it could be real fun.
Including the
CIA Factbook of the world
Governmental Information delivered by the State University of New York at Buffalo
