This network brings together researchers from or interested in e-government in Scandinavia. This is the link between the SWEG workhops held every February

The Open Forum Foundation was established to create a future where every person on the planet has a voice in the decisions that affect their lives, and that process begins in the United States with a focus on the US Congress. We have an exciting plan, but need your participation to bring it to fruition.

e-government for the citizens (48 members)
We need to move government beyond thinking of their own, internal aack office integration when building e-government….They need to demonstrate its value for the citizens…So join in and tell the stories of success and failure…

eParticipation Network (25 members)

berlininjuly - e-democracy summit 2008 (8 members)
The european e-participation-scene gathered in “Berlin in August 2007″ to identify future aspects of the growing field of e-democracy. 25 Participants from 13 countries discussed for two days in the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin (ehemaliges Staatsratsgebäude) what issues are emerging, discussed good and bad practices and tried to build up a network. The British Council Germany gave some funding for travel expenses.On July 17th and 18th 2008 there has been a follow up. The British Council offered room, diegesellschafter.de and the Bertelsmann Stiftung were also supporting the conference. Tom Steinberg, mySociety.org, Christoph Dowe, politik-digital.de and Christian Heise, e-politik.de / e-demokratie.org were bound to be the inviting group. The group of guests included some of the last year guests as well as some new people; important new networks in the field had been informed about the meeting. In total, there were about 40 people from all over the world attending to the unconference.

MySociety (164 members)
Without doubt the coolest UK based charity-hosted virtual political web hacking community, like, ever

Virtual eParticipation Network (45 members)
Creating a Virtual eParticipation Network

I’ll update the post accordingly once we have a few more of these gathered.