Participative e-democracy : To the Cloud!

Naturally one of the most powerful topics within open source e-government is “Participative E-Democracy“, which ranges from i-Voting techniques through to the phenomona of the ‘Arab Spring‘ et al, where uprisings are co-ordinated via Twitter.

In short Internet technology is ideal for co-ordinating any kind of political movement, whether that be anarchic uprisings as much as it can be for simple municipal level e-government.

The base reference for our best practices in this area is the work of Propylon for the Kansas State legislature, the ‘Kansas KLISS‘ project.

This describes how to achieve ‘Digital E-Democracy’ via a Cloud-based application.