Migration and integration – some EU pointers, by Ian Graham http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/actrav/publ/129/23.pdf
Though not recent, this article provides a good overview of several issues that we usually tend to categorise separately.
A portal dedicated to Community Building Resources
http://www.commbuild.org/
How important it is to foster bottom-up citizen efforts is know to all of us. All attempts that were planned in the ivory towers of central planners sooner or later faced failures.
Citizens empowerment
Citizens empowerment in Israel – visit the Citizen's Empowerment Center in Israel (CECI) site, a non- profit, non-political center
http://www.ceci.org.il/eng/index.asp
Lexipation: An advanced ICT Tool for enhancing Citizen’s Participation in the Legislative Process
http://www.lexipation.eu/
Lexipation is an e-Participation project cofinanced by the European Commission.
The project tries to create a community of people interested in the wider area of e-participation and employ the Living Labs methodology to overcome the potential conflict between "representative" and "deliberative" democracy, enabling interested stakeholders to express a timely, informed and responsible judgement at each of the stages of the legislative process.
If you want to receive more information about the project tools and developments, visit the site and sign up in the Lexipation community!
Read also: Participation in the Law-Making Process: The LexiPation Approach
A paper that Ariadne Editor Francesco Molinari has submitted in MeTTeG07
1st International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government, Camerino (Italy), 27-28 September 2007
Transform! Europe
http://www.transform-network.org/
Transform! Europe is a network of mainly European organizations in the field of political education and critical scientific analysis. This collaboration of independent non-profit organizations, institutes, foundations and people means to utilize their work to contribute to a peaceful statelihood and to a transformation of the present world.
e-democracy and e-state: Back to the basics…
In times of superficialism it is not a bad idea to look into some influential works of sociologists and political scientists.
Nicos Poulantzas works on the theory of the state still can provide food for thought – it is for sure not packed in an easy to read template but includes elements of several phenomena that we currently face in Internet.
You can read more about Nicos Poulantzas by Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicos_Poulantzas
and visit the homepage of the Nicos Poulantzas Institute:
http://www.eppnp.gr/index_en.php?gl=en
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