gilroitto skrev:Hi Daði,
I have collected some information that I'm happy to share already now.
StoryFirst I can tell you some of the story of the political party Aktiv Demokrati.
Aktiv Demokrati has been registered as an organisation since 2004 but the group existed also before. I didn't get connected with Aktiv Demokrati until 2006 so I'm not familiar with the full story of the party. The forum and the homepage has existed since early 2006. Aktiv Demokrati has only a few active members but quite a few passive members. 2006 we got 81 votes for the national elections. To active members I count people working with evolving the party, debating and voting in the forum, writing in our blog, trying to recruit new members etc.
However, we are positive and believes that whenever we come up with a really effective way to spread or ideas we will quickly grow much larger.
StrategiesThe main ways to reach more voters are currently via internet:
- Information on the homepage.
- Writing on the blog.
- The forum, discussions with new people interested in the party.
- Actively comment and debate on internet on political issues and referring to our political party as a possible alternative to look into.
The main problems with our recruitment is the lack of time for our active members and that we are very spread out in the country and that we don't have any working group anywhere that could support eachother and more effectively arrange physical activities such as having political meetings, hand out material and discuss with people on the streets etc. And that we don't have a working voting system that could demonstrate the power of debating, delegate votes and vote online. Our small size and the radicality in the political ideas does make many people sceptical.
E-democracy systemsWe have looked at many voting systems. We have even done some serious attempts to implement our own systems and to test out other e-voting systems and set them up and further develop them for our needs. However, this has been done by 1 or 2 people with works or studies on the side, and the projects have been to vast and not reached any stage that could be used for real purposes.
Here are a number of links that we have gathered over the time from e-voting systems or other groups working with e-democracy that could be interesting to look into:
Votorola
http://zelea.com/project/votorola/ DemoWave
http://home.gna.org/demowave/help/index.en.html Metagovernment
http://www.metagovernment.org/wiki/Main_Page demexp
http://demexp.org/dokuwiki/http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/demexp DEMO-net
http://www.demo-net.org/ EDEM 2009 (eDemocracy/eVoting, arranging 2009 Conference on Electronic Democracy)
http://edem2009.ocg.at/ OneAim
http://www.oneaim.org(Watch out for
http://www.oneaim.org/?q=en/node/97)
The World Parliament Experiment
http://www.tgde.org/index.phtml GOV2demoss
http://www.gov2u.org/gov2DemOSS/index.htm(Not sure what this is. Commercial product?)
REVS (Robust Electronic Voting System)
http://www.gsd.inesc-id.pt/~revs/index.php(No longer active development I think)
EVOX
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/voting/voting.html(Old system)
Direktdemokraterna
http://87.227.23.51/(In swedish - Another swedish direct democratic party. They have some development of an e-voting system, but it is not open source.)
Finally I have some questions for you.
We wish to very open in all our activities. Hence I relay this email to you also on our forum. And we try to make sure that the contacts to x-listinn is not private to me.
- Me and Magnus already have your email. Can I share contact information to a limited trusted group so that the contacts remain safe to the party and is not dependent entirely on me? You'll be notified who these people are and will be given their contact information as well. And if you could give some other contact except yours it would also make the contact ways more safe.
- Can I relay your email answers and what we say when we meet, regarding information about x-listinn and general direct democracy tips/ideas, to our political forum? I won't relay secret strategies or any personal greetings etc.
Where do you stand ideologically? Do you have any established political agenda or are you all-the-way "purists" - all political wings are included into your vision of direct democracy? It is not important, we are just curious.
It would be very interesting if you could tell us something about x-listinn and your activities.
You are welcome to create an account on our forum and write comments, questions etc directly on the forum if you prefer this. The registration process exists only in swedish, but if you're interested I could give you a step-by-step instruction or create the account for you and you could go in and change the password.