Electronic Democracy:
Civic Life on the New Frontier

by Steven L. Clift
Minnesota E-Democracy

Abstract

Electronic Democracy: Civic Life on the New Frontier
Stories and lessons from the Minnesota E-Democracy experience presented with an eye toward the future. Highlights and personal reflections on close to three years of real citizen-to-citizen online interaction will be presented by the project's founder and current board chair, Steven Clift.

Informations about the Minnesota E-Democracy project

http://www.state.mn.us/devcenter/nsfuture/
http://www.e-democracy.org/
http://freenet.msp.mn.us/govt/e-democracy/1994/E-Debates

A recent news article on the Minnesota Politics e-mail forum:
http://www.wcco.com/news/mn-politics/

The next three are part of the E-Democracy International Library of documents. The first two are quite short and the third provides the detailed background on how a citizen-based e-democracy effort could be built in Austria:
http://www.e-democracy.org/intl/library/essay.html
http://www.e-democracy.org/intl/library/ecomm.html
http://www.e-democracy.org/intl/library/build.html