America 2076: Pop Technology and the New Future of Democracy provides the first comprehensive argument for the social and technical feasibility of post partisan politics, and shows how the Web will enable citizens to directly participate in local and national planning. Required reading for citizens and politicians who want to understand the next phase in American politics.
Post Partisan Politics is a blog about the evolution of democracy and the utilization of Web 2.0, and social media in politics.
Agenda Wiki is a citizen partnership experiment where citizens can collaboratively create agenda statements and make them available to local and national representatives.
The National Agenda Document and the The War in Iraq - Open Document
are both examples of collaborative agenda documents developed by volunteers and hosted at Google Docs. Anyone is welcome to participate.
Zenocracy enables proactive and positive collaboration between citizen and government, best practices and solutions for Citizen Consultation and Engagement.
The next version of American Democracy is evolving one piece at a time, and these sites are good examples of tools and information that let you start practicing post-partisan politics now.
opensecrets.helium.com - a collaboration between Helium and OpenSecrets.org.
OpenSecrets.org - tracks election campaign money
OpenCongress.org, excellent mashup of congressional data from Thomas, Govtrack.us, and the blogosphere.
Congresspedia.org - Wiki-style information resource on members of Congress.
DebatePoint - Engage in debate and vote for the most compelling arguments.
Projects Page - is the work area for ongoing technical projects. (coming soon).
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