Scottish Parliament reports on 10 years of public (e-)petitions

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Online petitioning is one of the oldest forms of e-participation around - in Scotland's case it has been part of the political system for 10 years now. Partly to mark the 10 years of operation, the Scottish Parliament on 16 June 2009 published the report of a ...

Write to your elected representative! (2.0)

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Writing letters to elected representatives has always been one of the more effective ways for citizens to state their concern for a political question or to make their opinion clear to “their” member of parliament. This seems perfectly reasonable: If hundreds or even thousands members of the constituency write to ...