The e-democracy conference EDem 08 will take place at the Danube University Krems in Austria between 29^th and 30^th of September 2008. 

The EDem2008 conference presents the opportunity to look into these questions and discuss the answers. During the conference experiences will be collected, examples good and bad practice analysed, the State-of-the-Art and future scenarios will be presented and discussed.

The 2008 Symposium - Empowering Citizens Through Technology and Participation. Build on the achievements of the 2006 Symposiums by creating an even stronger agenda and attracting a wealth of experienced and prestigious speakers. Sessions will run along three main themes - Local Authority, Political and International -and will encourage strong audience participation.

The site that allows you to have your say and see what others have said at the same time...

VOICE is a powerful web-publishing toolkit available to local councils to...

 E-democracy website covering issues from all over the world and promoting social participation.

Source for what's important and happening with the convergence of democracy and the Internet around the world.

On 14 September the e-Parliament, a global forum where democratically elected legislators work together to tackle the ‘democracy gap' worldwide, held the first ever global online parliamentary hearing.