www.toolkitparticipation.com
Toolkit Participation is a growing group of civil society (NGO) and local government organisations from all over the world, working together to promote participatory local governance. The site offers information on tools that promote citizen participation, a forum for discussions and it contains articles for further reference.
www.civicus.org
CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation is an international alliance of over a thousand members from 105 countries that has worked for over a decade to strengthen citizen action and civil society throughout the world, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens’ freedom of association are threatened. The global headquarters of CIVICUS are based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
www.berlinpolis.de
Berlinpolis defines and promotes a new progressive policy for the knowledge society of the 21st century. A new control philosophy and agenda for public innovation needs institutions, which play an active role in the development of social and political modernisation. A new policy for the knowledge society consists of two principles and examples: the promotion of civil society with the help of new media technologies and the renewal of democracy by the accelerated change of institutions and organisations.
Judith Baltus, Instituut voor Publiek en Politiek, Amsterdam