Archive for the ‘Trends’ Category
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
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As a following to Politech Institute’s video “Public Actors in Second Life” the persistent online game created by its citizens SECOND LIFE VIDEO, I went back “in world “, rushed to the “search” option, and typed European Elections to see if something were happening there: I didn’t find a lot on that ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
It’s almost exactly a year ago since I was at the “Neue Verwaltung” (“new administration”) conference in Leipzig and described my impressions here of how eParticipation was faring in Germany’s public administrations. The verdict in a nutshell was: there’s a fair amount on offer to executive staff from German administrations ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Finally our newest project has been released and delivered to our readers: The biannual free special interest magazine "Modern Democracy" by E-Voting.CC.
As I have announced in an earlier entry we issued the first edition of our magazine dealing with selected topics in the field of E-Democracy and it's newest developments. ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
This post is to highlight - although, we live in the same Europe, and have the same European Parliamentary representatives fighting for our interests (lol), the way, how they appear is really different.
In Hungary, for example only political parties can nominate EP candidates - through a list. This is somehow ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
There are quite new "applicants" in this years EP elections all over Europe - small-big European parties now eligible Europewide for nominating candidates for the elections (for example Libertas.eu)
One, not among these bigger players has recieved attention in Hungary, by offering internet demorcacy, as a way and basic construction for ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
The rise of social media and social networking as part of it brought both advantages and problems to eParticipation projects. On the one hand online time is limited for each potential participant of an eParticipation effort, which means the more time a person spends on Facebook, Twitter etc. the less ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
by Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, Danish Technological Institute
Much has been reported about the successful campaigning, fund raising and support canvassing by the 2008 Obama election campaign. Still the use of ICT to increase electoral participation, campaigning, consultation and voting is not a uniquely US phenomena. A multitude of eParticipation and eDemocracy ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
We all know about the benefits of social networking but what about the pitfalls? The obvious one is distraction – it is estimated that social networks cost UK businesses £6.5 billion a year in lost productivity. That doesn’t mean I’m in favour of blacklisting such sites; instead I would encourage ...
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
The USA is having a hot period of reforming the government through web2.0 and participatory models - it has become quite obvious during the last times. It does also mean, that NGO's are helping to find the best policy through various means.
The leader of IT and transparency mashups, the Sunlight ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
It is commonly accepted that the barrier to entry for participants in eParticipation action should be as low as possible. In this article I would like to take a look on a certain type of barrier, namely the registration processes on eParticipation websites, and how to make it easier for ...
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