Draft for posting to The IdealGovernment Wiki : participation / posted Philralph @sca21 15:59, February 10, 2010 (UTC) Online participation needs to be considered in the context of participation as a whole. In the main, for the forseeable future, online participation will be just one part of a wider mix. Particpation here is used to include participation by citizens with government, local government and institutional civic society. Citizen centred participation in policy making opens up, to citizen involvement, both Open design specifically includes and where necessary