Channels
Online consultations and engagement activities can utilize:
- Websites, discussion boards, and electronic mailing lists, which have the ability to aid in policy development by providing the public with pertinent information and engaging them in order to extract feedback on issues.
- Weblogs and real time online chat that can often put the public in direct contact with government officials, such as their MP, deputy or other political figure with whom they can share opinion and concerns
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)