Introduction

On this page we try to gather links to papers, websites (wiki pages) and projects that are of interest of this project. This page is split up in 3 sections: papers, websites and projects.

Books

Wikinomics (2006) by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikinomics

A New Democracy: Alternatives to a Bankrupt World Order by Harry Shutt http://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&id=3XYCwOLi9VgC

Papers

Douglas Rushkoff's Open Source Democracy

John Holloway in “Can we change the world without taking power?,” a debate with Alex Callinicos at the 2005 World social Forum. International Socialism Journal, 106, Spring 2005, p. 114.

Presentations

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dhsn9jsd_63jjpp2t

People

http://www.kapor.com/writing/index.html

Websites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_governance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoex

http://demoex.net/en -- not much info in english though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERulemaking

http://globaldemo.org -- portal with many links

http://democracybythepeople.googlepages.com/direct-participatory-democracy-links -- more than 100 links!

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com and http://p2pfoundation.net -- good and active portals

http://www.soros.org -- open society institute, look also at the list of org's that they work with

http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/ideafactory.do?id=4049&mode=top

Projects

http://www.nongnu.org/samizdat/ -- actively developed opensource decision making/ publishing website

http://www.openspaceworld.org

http://www.metagovernment.org

http://home.gna.org/demowave/ -- PHP, PgSQL, minimal, last release in sept'06

http://edemocrazy.sourceforge.net/ -- nice site with many resources, Java + proper web standards

http://www.worldhall.org/ -- interesting project also incorporating wiki workflow, blog on this project can easily be googled for.

http://preview.thetyee.ca/Life/2010/02/12/ReinventingPolitics/

http://nationbuilder.com

http://en.citizendium.org/

http://opengovernment.org

Parties

aktivdemokrati.se

Swedish party. No working website. Currently they're looking at DemoWave. Hard to find english info, yet seem very cooperative/responsive. Some english material found are their party program in their forum:

http://www.aktivdemokrati.se/AD-forum/viewforum.php?f=14

http://www.aktivdemokrati.se/AD-forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=402

http://www.aktivdemokrati.se/AD-forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=4781

http://www.aktivdemokrati.se/AD-forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=27 -- good info on other attempts