ICELE canned
The International Centre for Excellence in e-Democracy is having the funding taps turned off by central government, report Podnosh and Delib.
Views around the web are mixed as to whether it is a welcome relief or an opportunity missed. Although I’ve never had much to do with them directly, from reading the commentary I’d guess it was a step back before two steps forward. ICELE seem to have fallen into a local-authority-shaped hole, for instance providing their own democracy software rather than relying on people to provide their own solutions from the market or open source. If this sort of thinking was typical, they were clearly a bit behind the curve.