Canadians for
 Direct Democracy (CDD)

Canada

• Direct Democracy - George Sagi's Winnipeg site
• Democracy Watch, Ottawa campaigns on democratic reform, government and corporate accountability in Canada
• TAXCAP - Peter Macdonald's Vancouver site advocating public referendums to set a cap on taxes.
• Citizens Council of Canada - A Manitoba site on Direct Democracy.
• Elections BC - Government of BC Official Site
• Elections BC - Initiatives Section
• Fairvote B.C. and Fairvote Canada - A group advocating a more proportional electoral system
• LETSystem - Community Currencies - a non-exploitative money system that keeps energy (money) circulating within your own community
• BC Media Links
• Accountablility BC (ABC) is a registered provincial political party in BC

USA

• Philadelphia II - Possibly the leading direct democracy organization in the U.S., led by former US Senator Mike Gravel.
• The Initiative & Referendum Institute - a comprehensive site on direct democracy by this non-profit, non-partisan research and educational organization  
• Democracies Online - An extensive Minneapolis site promoting online civic participation and democracy around the world
• VoteSite.Org - a campaign to win the right to vote over the Internet, starting with voters in California
• VoteHere.net - A Washington online voting system
• Global Democracy Movement - Ted Becker's extensive site on direct electronic democracy at Auburn University, Alabama
• Direct Democracy League - Stephen Neitzke's Site
• Vote.org - Evan Ravitz's site, promoting citizen lawmaking and technology for it.
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Eric Raymond's essay on the governance structure that created Linux
• American Democracy and Computer Mediated Communication: - Ph.D. Dissertation of Geoffrey Aikens, Cambridge University, 1997
• Scott London - Essays on electronic democracy
• Center for Voting Democracy - An extensive site on Proportional Representation with worldwide links

Outside North America

• The Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation - The home of Direct Democracy - "There is scarcely any other country in which the people have such far-reaching rights of co-determination as in Switzerland"
• Direct Democracy - A comprehensive Australian site
• At the University of Geneva - dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to the study of direct democracy
• Democracy Forum - for discussion, debate, etc about information technology, communication media, and democracy
• IDEA - International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Sweden
• Switzerland - Dates des votations populaires
• Vivarto Voting Systems - Swedish on-line program for sending in, discussing and rating ideas and carrying out referendums. Proposes a representative system which is a variant of direct democracy.

• The Economist, December 21st 1996 - a 12 page article by Brian Beedham
• Fourteen Economist articles on direct democracy
• The People's Mandate, Referendums and a More Democratic Canada,1992

- 8 pages of notes on Patrick Boyer's book
• The New Wealth of Nations - Three chapters of John Raven's book that re-visits Adam Smith's famous work on governance
• Shambhala's "Ken Wilber Forum" We recommend the books of Ken Wilber because they outline a context in which everything can be held.