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We asked former home secretary David Blunkett and other experts how to involve #peopleinpolitics. Here's what they said

WIMPS stands for "Where Is My Public Servant?". It is a project run by and for young people. We started (way back in 2004!) with an idea - how do we make politics more relevant to young people? We decided one way of doing this was to remind politicians that they work for us - the citizens. We have created this space for young people like you to discuss and debate issues. We also want to do more - to get organised, to campaign and to bring our views directly to politicians and others, and to influence the decisions that affect our lives.

Participedia harnesses the power of collaboration to respond to a recent global phenomenon: the rapid development of experiments in new forms of participatory politics and governance around the world.

"Open University research project that aims to facilitate debate and mutual learning among the many different actors involved, so that we better understand these new forms of public participation in the broader social and political context in which they are situated. This page provides a platform for contributions to this debate."

Article by Jens Steffek on e-International Relations - a website for students and scholars of international politics.

The MIT Center for Civic Media works hand in hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy, and assess civic media tools and practices. We are inventors of new technologies that support and foster civic media and political action, we are a hub for the study of these technologies, and we coordinate community-based design processes locally in the Boston area, across the United States, and around the world.

HMRC getting some shiznit for taking to Twitter for customer service but I think it is fantastic. Used the service myself Friday and was impressed. I could tell they were struggling with demand but did a great job.

Project which uses Github to collaborate on a manifesto.

"Find out how new forms of participatory public engagement are working to reshape contemporary life."

The Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group co-ordinates and promotes theoretical and empirical research in democratic theory and democratic innovation. We're a specialist group of the UK's

Cristiano Ferri Faria of the Hacker Laboratory in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies writes about how they are involving citizens in making legislation.

This web app provides easier and/or visual access to data and statistics extracted from MSP votes. Unless otherwise stated, raw data is extracted from the official Scottish Parliament(SP) website, seldom supplemented with information gathered from pages on SP at Wikipedia.

We want to challenge this traditional way of operating elections. We've already started building a prototype for an online voting platform, designed to operate a policy-based election. With Kickstarter's help, we will launch our platform at the time of the 2015 general election campaign. Participants will vote on ideas, and not just the narrow field of polarised ideas often dictated by political parties and the media. Voters will consider policies, the results will be captured and visualised, with national data being updated as the election progresses. Data and trends can then be used as part of a national debate.

'If you are trying to connect with the public, where you go online matters. If you choose to make Facebook your platform for civic activity, you are implicitly suggesting that a specific class of people is more worth your time and attention than others. Of course, splitting your attention can also be costly and doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be reaching everyone anyhow. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. The key to developing a social media strategy is to understand who you're reaching and who you're not and make certain that your perspective is accounting for said choices. Understand your biases and work to counter them.'