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In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation.

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.

Includes tips, case studies and a tools directory (produced with help from the guys at Involve)

This tool provides practical information for those working to involve people. By registering you can add methods, cases, library resources, news and experts to our database.

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.