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20. April 2010 – 10:37 by Centre for E-Government
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“A revolution doesn’t happen when a society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviours.“ (Clay Shirky)
EDem10
4th International Conference on eDemocracy
6. and 7. May 2010
Danube-University Krems
Conference Programme
There will be a PEP-NET Workshop!
Keynotes
- Distribution and Empowerment: Embedding Citizens at the Heart of Democracy
Andy Williamson
- Goverati: E-Aristocrats or the Delusion of E-Democracy
Ismael Peña-López
- The Promise and Contradictions of E-Democracy, Obama Style
Micah L. Sifry
- Open Access to Research: Changing Researcher Behavior through University and Funder Mandates
Stevan Harnad
Find the full programme here.
Registration
Please register at the Conference Website. Please indicate ‘special status’ as “PEP-NET Member” to profit from full discount when registering at the website.
PEP-NET Meeting
Please do not forget to register for the PEP-NET Meeting in Krems, Austria.
You find further information here in this Blog.
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13. November 2009 – 10:01 by Civil College
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I think, most of us can feel the hot air breezing us during thes days. I have just hit the engaging film from ConnectedRepublic supporting EUPS20, the declaration, which if you did not sign, it is high time, just now. I think all of us wishes it’s sucess, but have you tweeted about it today? Or called your facebook friends attention to it?
Above all scepticism of social media enthusiasm, there is really many things going on. Have you heard about, that OpenID biggest government boost is happening – according to Dana Blankenhorn, by the U.S. government endorsment of OpenID.
However, Malmö is a great city, with a lot of openness. The Garaget, a historical place for civil movements and an innovative social solution of the City, is offering the really warm role of being the host of this event: First Popular European Egovernment Conference, which is taking place in Malmö, paralell to the 5th Ministerial Conference on Egovernment – more in a Pecha Kucha / Unconference style, offering open spaces for discussion and agenda setting.
These events forerunner is the eGovernment Research and Innovation Conference , happening just right before these events.
Watching US NOW is good warmup. Do check it out, if you have not seen it.
It is obvious now I hope for everybody reading this blog, that the really intersting things are happening on two fronts. Most of us understands, that the open(source) community workers by hacking codes and fixing bugs are good citizens. Or more than good – they also share freely what they have back to the community. And those, who are going there and opening a space for discussion on the topic, they are partners for creating better governance. For now, the Swedish Minister, Mats Odell has confirmed his presence, according to the website of the Ministerial Conference thruogh Magnus Kolsjo‘s tweet.
I wish, that the social and scientifical openness will meet with good cultre. Just as the Minister for Local Governments and Financial Market says on his site:
“I want to ditch the unwritten law that keeps us from standing out from the crowd and make way for the Ingvar Kamprads of tomorrow and other dynamic people – for a society that will harness your creativity and your potential, so as to benefit you and other people.”
Check out the conference twitter page here: http://twitter.dijksman.com/
and look for the hashtags #malmo09 and #egov2009
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30. January 2009 – 19:17 by Roberto Zarro
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Participation is a complex and multifaceted issue. Why not improving participation processes by means of a participatory practice? This has been the approach adopted during “Parteci P.A., the Meeting of the Participatory Democracy”, which took place form 21th to 23th of January, in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. An Open Space Technology (OST) – a methodology for the design and organization of participatory events and meeting, through the direct contribution of the same participants – has been held as main method to debate about the future perspective of participatory policies.
Visions, hypothesis and concrete proposals about the possibility to improve participation processes has been shared among the participants. In an opening plenary session, more than one hundred people proposed the issues to deal during the rest of the day in specific workgroups, composed on a self-selection basis, and aiming to the production of thematic instant reports.
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