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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

In London, comes the e-democracy

 A measure providing for the creation of an Internet site where British citizens can upload the bills they consider most interesting. Those who reach one hundred thousand preferences will be discussed by Parliament on British Prime Minister David Cameron is the "Democracy 2.0" the last frontier of Westminster.

It may perhaps seem surprising that the British Conservatives, in the days when the House of Commons is preparing to discuss the restoration of an ancient tradition of aristocratic country as fox hunting, then make a display of progress on the web. But this is also part of the communication strategy developed at Downing Street to actively involve civil society in the affairs of state - one of several ways to bring out the Big Society outlined by Cameron guru Steve Hilton.