The goal of the Internet Voting Project is to disseminate and share academic research by social scientists addressing Internet voting. Internet voting has been actively used in binding elections around the world for over a decade, yet we know little about its social and political impacts. Part of the reason for this is the lack of data that has been collected from these elections, especially in a Canadian context. This project seeks to change this, by collecting attitudinal data from election stakeholders in jurisdictions that use Internet voting so we are better able to understand the impact of digital technology on electoral democracy. CONTINUE READING

In the summer of 2013, the City of Guelph announced that the municipality was embarking on a strategy to create Canada’s first Open Government Action Plan. The goal: to create a more open, accountable, transparent and engaging municipal government. Using Delvinia’s Voice of e-Democracy platform, the City of Guelph sought to create new participation experiences designed to help the municipality increase citizen participation, gather opinion, promote informedness, and ultimately involve residents, local businesses and associations, and special interest groups in an ongoing dialogue with government. To engage this audience, the City launched a broad-based online survey. CONTINUE READING