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As you may have noted on DO-WIRE <http://www.e-democracy.org/do>, interest in online consultations and civic events organized by governments and other groups is growing rapidly. Trendwatchers take notice. In the nine months that we were working up plans for the DO- CONSULT practitioners e-mail list, a number of key reports have been issued and featured on DO-WIRE. They keep coming. Three new reports are described below with a list of ten additional reports worth taking a look at as your government (civic group) brings online consultation and events into your online efforts. Don't recreate the wheel. Learn from others. Pass this collection of links on. Quick Access (detail below) Democracy Online: An Evaluation of the National Dialogue on Public Involvement in EPA Decisions http://www.rff.org/reports/PDF_files/democracyonline.pdf What sort of Scotland do we want to live in? Assessment of the e- consultation process http://itc.napier.ac.uk/e-consultant/scfrio/Evaluation-of- process.pdf Online Consultation In GOL-IN Countries - Initiatives to foster e- democracy http://governments-online.org/documents/e-consultation.pdf (This is from the former named G8 Government Online effort.) To discuss these reports and connect with about 100 of your peers who are working to build useful and successful online consultations, join the Democracies Online - Online Consultation and Civic Events e-mail list today. Introductions will start shortly. To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For full e-mail list details, follow the link in the right column under DO Communities of Practice from <http://www.e- democracy.org/do>. Steven Clift Democracies Online http://www.e-democracy.org/do P.S. Stay tuned for my own Top Ten Tips on Online Consultations. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: "Beierle, Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: New report on EPA electronic dialogue Resources for the Future has just released the report "Democracy Online: An Evaluation of the National Dialogue on Public Involvement in EPA Decisions." This report examines an on-line public dialogue conducted by the Environmental Protection (EPA). Held in July 2001, it was the first time that EPA (and perhaps any federal agency) included such a sophisticated on-line participation mechanism as part of its decisionmaking process. RFF's report demonstrates that on-line dialogues offer a whole new approach to public involvement by combining broad participation with the intensive interaction usually found only in small groups. As the era of e-government dawns, this report outlines how on-line dialogues can harness the Internet to enhance public participation in agency rulemaking and other policymaking efforts. Please use the following link to download the full report: http://www.rff.org/reports/PDF_files/democracyonline.pdf To download only the executive summary, please use the following link: http://www.rff.org/reports/summaries/DemOnlineExecSum.pdf If you would like a hard copy of the report, please email a request to [EMAIL PROTECTED], send a fax to (202) 939-3460, or call (202) 328- 5015. This research was conducted in cooperation with Information Renaissance and EPA, and funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Macintosh, Ann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 2 reports on Scottish e-consultation We have just completed 2 evaluation reports on a recent e- consultation on "What Sort of Scotland do we want to live in?". The e-consultation was on behalf of the Environment Group of the Scottish Executive and was based around sustainable development issues facing Scotland. The aim was to equip Ministers with views to develop a policy document as input to the World Summit in South Africa in 2002. The e- consultation ran from 6th June to 8th October 2001. It aimed to inform people about the key issues facing a future Scotland and asked them to give their views on a range of issues ranging from efficient use of resources to lifestyle and transport. The web site address for the e-consultation is: http://e-consultant.org.uk/sustainability/. It received a total of 392 contributions. Of these 172 were made by individuals and 19 on behalf of organisations or groups. One report provides the results of the analysis of the comments entered onto the e-consultation website: Here there were 3 objectives to the analysis: · To discover the extent to which contributions answer questions set by the e-consultation; · To investigate whether the issues and information provided online were clear and helpful; · To determine the main sustainable development themes arising from the e-consultation. The other report (which is probably of more interest to Do-Wire readers) describes and assesses the structure of the e-consultant website, the content of the site and the e-consultation process: The assessment is based on past experience of conducting e- consultations, the meetings of the consultation Steering Group and the users' opinions of the site as given in response to the on-line "Review Site" questionnaire. Every page of the e-consultation had a link to the "Review Site" questionnaire. This aimed to gather information about the circumstances in which people used the site, how easy or difficult they found it to use and what they thought about using the Internet as part of a consultation process. Both reports can be downloaded from the "feedback" section of the e- consultation at: http://e-consultant.org.uk/sustainability/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: http://governments-online.org/articles/18.shtml Online Consultation In GOL-IN Countries - Initiatives to foster e- democracy The final report from the 2001 GOL-IN e-democracy project is now available. The report shows that governments around the globe are actively promoting online consultations in order to strengthen democracy and development. The project report of 6 December 2001 is a joint product of the members of the Government Online International Network. The report has been drafted by Pauline Poland Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations the Netherlands. Download the full report now. Get the PDF-version (475kB): http://governments-online.org/documents/e-consultation.pdf or the Word/RTF-version (284kB): http://governments-online.org/documents/e-consultation.rtf - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Key Online Consultation Reports Previously Featured on DO-WIRE Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation http://bowlingtogether.net OECD Citizens as Partners Guide: Information, Consultation and Public Participation in Policy-Making (268 pages) http://www1.oecd.org/publications/e-book/4201131e.pdf Engaging Citizens in Policy-making: Information, Consultation and Public Participation. OECD Public Management Policy Brief No. 10 http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M00007000/M00007815.pdf Building Digital Bridges - Creating Inclusive Online Parliamentary Consultations http://www.hansard-society.org.uk/DigitalBridges.pdf Electronic Democracy and Educating Young People http://www.teledemocracy.org/documents/html/sweden/youth_sweden.htm New Media and Social Exclusion (report excerpt from Hansard Society) http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@tc.umn.edu/msg00279.html On-line Engagement – New Models and Implications for Government Departments and Officials http://www.cprn.ca/docs/corporate/ole_e.pdf Lessons from the Network Model for Online Engagement of Citizens http://www.cprn.ca/docs/corporate/lfn_e.pdf Electronic Civic Consultation: A guide to the use of the Internet in interactive policy making (Key Dutch report from 1997, found it below) http://www.democracy.org.uk/centre/articles/elcivco.pdf UK Best Practices and Guides (lesson to be transferred to online): http://www.cabinet- office.gov.uk/servicefirst/index/consultation.htm http://www.idea.gov.uk/bestvalue/consult/methods.htm Policity Citizen Participation Centre (Canada) http://www.policity.com/cp/index.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. 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