If you'd like to join an international exchange with e-participation practitioners check out:

Online Consultations, Dialogues, and E-Participation - An online community of practice for "e-participation" practitioners involved with government, parliamentary and civic online consultations, public hearing, and town hall events as well as e-petitioning and e-rulemaking

Join from:

http://groups.dowire.org/groups/consult

This group replaces the previous do-consult@ yahoogroup.

P.S. A whole mess of e-democracy related online communities are being established using the open source GroupServer platform. It does a much better job than YahooGroups at supporting mixed e-mail list/web forum online groups.

See: http://groups.dowire.org

And: http://groupserver.org (code) or http://onlinegroups.net (start group)

Steven Clift - clift@publicus.net

Web: http://publicus.net

Blog: http://dowire.org/notes

NGO: http://e-democracy.org

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