International Centre for Local e-Democracy (ICELE) is a virtual Centre of Excellence...

Rock the Vote is a website that engages youth in the political process by incorporating the entertainment community and youth culture to its activities.

In nine official votes between January 2003 and November 2006, authorities in Geneva invited up to 90,000 citizens to test a remote e-Voting system as a complement to traditional voting methods. Multidisciplinary teams composed of legal, political, PR, security and computer science specialists, strongly supported by the Government, participated in creating the system which has been positively appraised by the Geneva Parliament in 2006.

This study presents and analyses the results of a survey among the electorate of the Estonian parliamentary elections held on 4 March 2007. The primary focus of the analysis lies on the newly introduced possibility of voting via the Internet in these elections. The application of this pioneering voting channel gave the elections an exclusive character and provoked enormous attention in the political as well as in the scientific community.

The UK will hold electronic voting pilots in 13 local authorities during the May 2007 elections. Electoral pilot schemes at the May 2007 local elections in England will continue the programme of electoral modernisation that was started in 2000.

The Downing Street website crashes under the weight of e-mails from angry voters.

Former Cabinet ministers Alan Milburn and Charles Clarke - not men previously associated with the cutting edge of technology - make a big splash at Westminster with the launch of a website.

A British-made film praising American foreign policy becomes a hit on You Tube.

Last November 27, voters of about fifteen cities of the canton of Zurich, in Switzerland, could vote by Internet, but also by SMS, on several referendum. It was the end of a series of tests launched in 2003 in Switzerland, initially in Geneva, then in Neuchâtel and Zurich.

Given the spread of e-governance during the last decade, have new information and communication technologies actually served to strengthen good governance and deepen democracy, as proponents claim?