Each recent election has been described as the 'Twitter election' or the 'Facebook election' but is it possible to engage with voters in sufficient numbers to have a real impact?

I'd like to know how seriously politicians and civil servants take online / networked-based campaigns? How do / should they respond to them - and is 'hacktivism' - the 'Save Africa' Facebook group - cut across the real need for a more participative and deliberative democracy?

If Scotland were independent would there be more room for far-left or far-right party's to grow?

There are lots of women out there in the Blokeosphere, but you wouldn't know it from the rankings list. How can we change that?

A criticism of blogs is that they only speak to the political establishment and are full of inside jokes and event intra party politics. How do you broaden that in Scotland even to civil servants and other senior figures?

Much is made of the fact that Holyrood is more open to the public and their ideas than, say, Westminster and Brussels. However, beyond the figures of visitors and public petitions that tend not to make much real progress, is the Scottish Parliament really as "open" as it seems.

Developing, discussing and propagating reality-based policies. Towards a particpative State.

Online activism and campaigning are well and good, but there needs to be a way of being sure that your elected representatives will pay attention to what is being said. Petitions are one option - so long as there is a commitment from the politicians to respond to the petition

Hyperlocal sites, are they good or bad when it come to politics & elections?

How can we streamline getting correspondence back from our representatives? Can tools such as Twitter and the MyMP app be useful beyond campaigning and be used comprehensively for corresponding with representatives, and more importantly, getting a response from an MP or MSP? Is this desirable?

Does anyone wish to work on raising engagement in communities ?

Listings, ticketing and social media from a single place. What's not to like.
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It's a political decision.

Should we only regard political blogs as personal soap-boxes? Or do they have the potential to be socially useful - perhaps in fostering public debate or shaping policies? If so, is there something that Scottish bloggers need to be doing more of than they are at the moment?

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Do politicians, the media or officials in Scotland fear blogs and, if so, is that helping or inhibiting democratic debate?

How to secure the appropriate use of ICT and adoption of the internet to ensure that politics is not driven by shallow egoes, or popular opinions, but driven by knowledge, and used to reach well informed optimal decisions in relation to sustainable allocation of resources.

I wonder if a repository of as broad a range of political DNA as possible, organised along the lines of an online music store or an Everyman library for the 21st century, with crowdsourced tools such as content tagging, couldn't be created to support bloggers in their development of ideas and concepts. This would be a cross-party repository of both current and historical content and would enable bloggers to deal more accurately with issues, comments and any assertion flagging systems.

Often, senior professionally minded people don't understand interactivity. They've delegated it and feel threatened by it as a result. They don't see it as a tool that can make their organisation better. We need to fix this.