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     government engagement

The 2000 paper (PDF) on Electronic Environmental Democracy: The Future of Information Technology in Participatory Environmental Management by researchers at Resources for the Future (RFF) describes an RFF survey examining how all 50 US states use the net to engage citizens in environmental issues.

     email

The March 2001 Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) E-mail Overload in Congress: Managing a Communications Crisis study suggests that members of Congress and their staff are drowning in a flood of email, contrary to the vision in Richard Davis' The Web of Politics (New York, Oxford Uni Press 99) and Cyberpolitics (Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield 98) by Kevin Hill & John Hughes of the net as a mechanism for revitalising community participation in politics.

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