Digital Democracy Resources

 

General Resources:

Arizona Resources:

Best Practices:

Censorship:

Democracy and the Internet:

Election Websites:

Intellectual Property Rights:

Internet and Developing Countries:

Internet Voting:

Issues and Interests:

Government Websites:

Media:

On-line Civil Disobedience:

Other Political Sites:

 

 

General Resources:

 

  1. Politics Online:  http://www.politicsonline.com/

 

Arizona Resources: 

 

  1. Arizona Home Page: http://www.az.gov/webapp/portal/
  2. Arizona State Legislature: http://www.azleg.state.az.us/
  3. League of Arizona City and Towns: http://www.azleague.org/
  4. Arizona City and Town Websites: http://www.azleague.org/links_city_town.htm
  5. City of Mesa Home Page: http://www.ci.mesa.az.us/
  6. Congressperson John Shadegg: http://www.ombwatch.org/npadv/2001/stlg/index.html

 

Best Practices:

 

  1. Plugged In, Tuning Up: An Assessment of State Legislative Websites: http://www.ombwatch.org/npadv/2001/stlg/index.html
  2. Congressional websites: http://www.congressonlineproject.org/
  3. European Survey 2001: http://www.politicsonline.com/specialreports/010803/eusurvey2001.asp
  4. “Survey Ranks Arizona Number One in Digital Demoracy:” http://www.fedsources.com/spotlight/archive/state/s071100-1.asp

 

Censorship:

 

  1. “The Morality Police,” Salon: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/06/11/children/index.html
  2. ”Senate OK’s FBI Net Spying:” http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46852,00.html

 

 

 

Democracy and the Internet:

 

  1. “Congress Experiments with Digital Democracy,” CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/23/digital.democracy.experi.idg/
  2. Democracy and Internet Workgroup: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~eumansky/net.dem.html
  3. “Assessing E-Government: The Internet, Democracy, and Service Delivery by State and Federal Governments,” Darrell M. West: http://www.insidepolitics.org/egovtreport00.html
  4. Does Internet Create Democracy? by Alinta Thornton: http://www.wr.com.au/democracy/

 

  1. Barber, Benjamin R.  2000.  “Globalizing Democracy” American Prospect.  (September 11). http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V11/20/barber-b.html

 

  1. Barber, Benjamin R. 1997.  “The State of Electronically Enhanced Democracy,” The Walt Whitman Center, Rutgers University.  (November).  http://www.wwc.rutgers.edu/markle.htm

 

  1. Michael Margolis and David Resnick, Politics as Usual: The “Cyberspace Revolution” (book review): http://lilt.ilstu.edu/gmklass/ITPnews/spring01/MargolisResnickbookreview.htm

 

  1. :Life in the Fastlane:  A Municipal Roadmap for the Information Superhighway” gopher://gopher.civic.net:2400/00/hhmunitelecom/MMA.txt

 

  1. “How to Use—and Not Use—Digital Demcracy:” http://civnet.org/journal/issue10/ftwlew.htm

 

  1. “Digital Democarcy: Is Technology Empowering Us as Citizens?” http://www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/thismorning/sites/politics/digitaldemocracy_001205.html

 

  1. Center for Democracy and Technology Digital Democracy website: http://www.cdt.org/action/

 

  1. Electronic Frontier Foundation E-voting Archive: http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/

 

  1. Votelink: The Voice of the Net: http://www.votelink.com/

 

  1. “Education in a Digital Democracy:” http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm00/articles006/erm0064.pdf

 

  1. “Digital Democracy: An Idea Whose Time Has Come,” Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/features/98/12/18/1319204.shtml

 

  1. “Post-election 2000 Survey on Internet Use for Civics and Politics,” Democracy Online Project: http://democracyonline.org/databank/

 

  1. “Digital State Part III: Digital Democracy and Management/Administration,” The Progress & Freedom Foundation: http://www.pff.org/POP_7.10DSPartIII.htm

 

 

Election Websites:

 

  1. Voter Registration Information: http://www.insuredemocracy.com/state.htm
  2. Election 2000 Archived Candidate Sites.  http://archive0.alexa.com/collections/e2k.html
  3. John Shadegg for Congress: http://www93.pair.com/js4cong/
  4. Money in American Elections: http://www.opensecrets.org/

 

 

Intellectual Property Rights:

 

  1. Digital Millennium Copyright Act Archive: http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/

 

  1. Free Dmitry Sklyarov!  http://freesklyarov.org/

 

  1. “New Copyright Bill Heading to DC,” Slate: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46655,00.html

 

  1. Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks:

 http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/forums/copyright/index_transcript.html

 

  1. The GNU Project (Free Software): http://www.fsf.org/

 

  1. “Preserve your rights online—act now:” http://slashdot.org/yro/01/09/16/1647231.shtml

 

 

 

Internet and Developing Countries:

 

  1. Global Internet Initiative: http://www.gipiproject.org/
  2. “Monopoly Clicks Off India Callers,” Wired: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46760,00.html

 

 

Internet Voting:

 

1.      Internet Voting Hotlist.  http://www.research.att.com/~lorrie/voting/hotlist.html

 

  1. “Buy this vote! The web puts democracy on sale,” Slate: http://slate.msn.com/netelection/entries/00-08-23_88646.asp
  2. “Digital Democracy: Stand for Online Voting and More,” http://www.digital4sight.com/news/democracy.htm

 

Issues and Interests:

 

  1. Movement for Direct Democracy: http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-38823/
  2. Nonviolence International: http://www.members.tripod.com/nviusa/
  3. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: http://www.napf.org/
  4. World Nuclear Association: http://www.world-nuclear.org/
  5. Zero Population Growth: http://www.zpg.org/
  6. “Congress No Haven for Hackers,” Slate: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45522,00.html
  7. Security Systems Standards and Certification Act: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.090701.html
  8. United Blood Services: http://www.unitedbloodservices.org/nikki.html
  9. Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/
  10. International Issues:  Cybercrime: http://www.cdt.org/international/cybercrime/001211cdt.shtml

 

Government Websites:

 

  1. Homepages for the 50 States: http://www.piperinfo.com/state/index.cfm
  2. United States Government Home Page: http://www.firstgov.gov/
  3. Thomas: federal legislative information:  http://thomas.loc.gov/
  4. Access To Local Government Websites: http://www.uta.fi/valogos/links.html
  5. Neighborhoods Online:  http://neighborhoodsonline.net/
  6. The United States Postal Service: http://www.usps.com/

 

Media: 

  1. Center for Media Education: http://www.cme.org/
  2. Center for Digital Democracy: http://www.democraticmedia.org/
  3. Mark Thatcher, The Politics of Telecommunications: National Institutions, Convergence, and Change. (book review): http://lilt.ilstu.edu/gmklass/ITPnews/spring01/Brainardthatcherkbookreview.htm
  4. Live Journal: Create your own live journal: http://www.livejournal.com/

 

 

On-line Civil Disobedience:

 

  1. Gallery of CSS Descramblers: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/

 

Other Political Sites:

  1. Hinduforce: Cyber-Militant Hindu Politics: http://hinduforce.4t.com/
  2. E-translator.net: http://www.e-translator.net/index.shtml
  3. “No WTO” CD Release: http://www.ink19.com/issues/october2000/features/noWtoCombo.html
  4. The Cyberpunk Authority: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/3011/main.htm
  5. Michael Moore (political commentary): http://www.michaelmoore.com/