Facebook helps knitting the net

As most of you know the website facebook is a so called social network site. It helps to stay in contact with people you know, to find new people who are interested in the same topics as you are or to collaborate within virtual groups. But is facebook already used by those who are interested in eParticpation and who are generally believing that ICT could help to improve democracy?

The answer is yes. Here are some eParticpation related groups and pages:

Groups:

e-democracy (367 Member)

E-Demokratie.org (15 members)

ICT4Democracy (194 Member)

MySociety (162 Member)

Participatory Budgeting (165 Member)

Virtual eParticipation Network (43 Member)

Pages:

MySociety (87 fans)

PEP-NET (46 fans)

For those of you who are not yet familiar with facebook or who are interested to learn how to use facebook more efficiently , please check out this very nice video presentation. (source: citizenreporter)

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