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15. October 2008 – 12:49 by Centre for E-Government
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At the Centre for E-Government, Danube University Krems (we hosted the EDem08, remember us?) we have a couple of ideas we would let to get started on- the first one is to establish an online open access journal alongside the yearly EDem conference. It will address theoretical and applied topics from e-democracy to e-government. If you are interested in participating, read below and get in touch with me (noella.edelmann@donau-uni.ac.at)!
Details ( please note that if you are interested, we are open to your ideas and suggestions as well as what role you would like to have):
The e-journal will address an international audience being at least bi-lingual, German and English. It will be published twice a year. All content will be available for free for readers on the Internet under a creative commons license. It is the journals intention to be a full open access journal. Thus also authors should have free access to publish their works. Of course the online open access journal will follow the highest standards of peer review. Thus the e-journal intends to be another attractor for young as well as experienced scholars to connect with the Centre for e-Government at the Danube University of Krems.
The e-journal is asking for your participation as a joint international partner organization or your personal board membership including peer reviewing responsibilities.
To receive at hoc the best visibility on the web the Centre will execute its e-journal with the well-established open source platform Open Journal System by the Public Knowledge Project, which was developed at Stanford University. This platform will distribute the contents with its sophisticated metadata possibilities at once in all relevant search engine databases including Google scholar and scientific content harvesters like the Open Archives Harvester. Furthermore the e-journal will be announced in all relevant open directories including the Directory of Open Access Journals, the Librarians’ Internet Index, and many more. It is the journals mission to promote the published articles of its authors at its best.
The Open Access Journal will be promoted via the EDem conference and other conferences addressing the topics, plus extensive community relations within the scientific communities interested in the topics as well as within diverse social software applications and mailing lists on the web. Furthermore the international relations with university libraries will ensure the availability of the e-journal to future students and researchers.
I look forward to hearing from you!
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17. June 2008 – 16:50 by Orebro University
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Örebro University will submit a proposal to the new EU eParticipation call and we now look for possible partners. We need partners in at least two European countries (other than Sweden) . The ideal partner is a university with a good record in conducting eParticipatory processes who has contacts with some government (local or other) where trials can take place. There will be a need for an interesting decision problem and a willingness on part of the government to try out a new method (which has been tested already – we can provide results and experiences). The project will include both technical systems (which we develop) and designing and analysis of particiaptory decision processes (which each partner must localize). A brief description of the project will be sent upon request.
/Åke Grönlund
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9. June 2008 – 16:11 by Orebro University
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It is my pleasure to introduce Örebro University (Sweden) to PEP-net. I would like to use our first blog post to briefly introduce you to some of eParticipation researchers and activities at our school.
Our young Örebro University has a broad spectrum of research in democracy—our slogan is “the democratic university.” When it comes to eDemocracy and the related fields of eGovernment and ICT4D (ICT for development), the Department of Informatics in the Swedish Business School plays a leading role in global networks. We work together with other disciplines such as political science, media and communication and public administration and have been involved in numerous related EU, national, local and business projects. Read the rest of this entry »
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29. May 2008 – 07:48 by christophdowe-politik-digital.de
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Part of the Pep-Net project is to make good examples of projects more visible. e-participation.net is part of the new european network Pep-Net and collects data about participatory online projects. Is your best practice example included already? Do you know of more examples? To report new examples just fill in the box at the right column – we only need the URL! The data will be delivered to an editor at politik-digital.de where a short description of the website will be written. If you want, you can also send us more information.
The website, built by politik-digital.de and the British Council Germany about one year ago, already consists of a database of about 200 projects. Now its time to include some more examples from other countries! Before launch, the partners had published a short study (PDF) in 2006, comparing the state of the art of e-Democracy in Germany and the United Kingdom (“Facilitating active Citizenship. E-Participation in the United Kingdom and Germany”).
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