Los integrantes de La Mesa de Debate sobre la Montaña han celebrado el 25 de agosto su quinta reunión, una vez firmado un documento de consenso sobre el Modelo de desarrollo para los territorios de Montaña. En ella han comenzado el trabajo de debate sobre los contenidos de la futura Ley, que se continuará hasta [...]

Controlling Internet Content is a sensitive issue for all governments – democratic or non-democratic. However, the kind of censorship applied in China or Iran is a complex matter and should be discussed by other authors. This article gives a short overview of current activities in recognized democratic countries. It raises the question, if national regulation [...]

In the next days in Italy there will be some relevant events for researchers, decision makers, activists, ordinary citizens, interested in the state of the public debate about Internet, democracy and participation, particularly in this country, where even freedom of information has recently become an hot issue (see the petition launched by La Repubblica, [...]

Hello Hans

hello world

@Tim

David Newman (@davidrnewman on Twitter) will structure the results and posts them online. I am not completly sure where.

I think that the emphasis on “electronic” participation will wear of by itself if eParticipation gets established as a “normal” part of participatory processes (e.g. accepted by all players involved, maybe codified in law etc.).

Anyways I aimed at starting a discussion by pointing out the major trends I noticed at the event and that seems [...]

Well, I’m not sure if the “e-” should be dropped. Dropping could be too radical, and the e actually “adds” some meaning.
But I’m also not happy with the suggestion from Peter: to consider Participation and e-Participation as two very related things, but somehow also different: e-Participation understood as an extra channel for participation. Thus, we [...]

Thanks for getting a summary up so quickly!

One point: I wonder if instead of talking about dropping the ‘e-’ (which I did too, I know), we should be talking about the ‘e-’ as being one of several channels available to citizens - supplementing paper or community-based routes. That way, we can focus on where/why e-participation [...]

Well done!

I especially like the mathmatic demostration. Right down my alley of humour.

Again: everybody is invited to reflect.

(this image was introduced and partly explained as part of the discussion on the previous post: Impressions of the eDem 09 conference in Vienna). Reproduced below:

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Anyway, let’s go back: we were saying that the diminishing “(e)” does not change the nature of Participation.
But as time goes by, it will completely [...]

On September 8th and 9th 2009 the European eParticipation, eDemocracy and eVoting community met in Vienna to discuss the latest developments in the field and to work on potential strategies to move forward. I would like to talk about a few impressions of this event which has been supported by PEP-NET and was one of [...]

The European e-participation-scene gathered in BerlinInAugust 2007 to identify future aspects of the growing field of e-democracy. 25 Participants from 13 countries discussed for two days in the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin (ehemaliges Staatsratsgebäude) what issues are emerging, discussed good and bad practices and tried to build up a network. The British Council [...]

The European Commission unveiled the 52 finalist projects which will compete for the European eGovernment Awards 2009. The list of the 52 finalists along with the 55 additional good practice is listed below. The Awards ceremony will take place on 19 November 2009 in Malmö, Sweden.
Finalist and Good Practice Projects

EUROPEAN eGOVERNMENT AWARDS FINALISTS 2009:

Category1. eGovernment [...]

“Evolution” of the views on “What participation is”??
Everybody is invited to reflect on it.
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ARNSTEIN, S.R. (1969) “A Ladder of Citizen Participation”, American Institute of Planners Journal, nº 35 (4): págs. 216-224.

IAPP (2000) AIP2 Spectrum of Public Participation, Westminster: International Association for Public Participation.

GRAMBERGER, M. (2001) Citizens as Partners: OECD handbook on Information, Consultation [...]

There are some really interesting bloggers writing on the BlogActiv, but I don’t really consider it a community, it’s more a number of individual blogs under the heading of the BlogActiv logo for which I don’t see a particular added value.

More interesting Euroblogs can be found on https://bloggingportal.eu

Dear Olga,

well, there is nothing to say against referring to other articles, paraphrasing and/ or quotations. Another thing is just to duplicate content without making sufficiently clear what comes from you and what has been taken from other authors.

In the respective posting you left the headline of the original posting unchanged and took complete parts [...]

Hi Tim and All,

Thanks a lot for your advice! So far, I was looking for inspiration on Google News but will try Twitter for sure!
The article I was referring to in my blog has been removed because the content was to similar to the original text.

Best Regards, Oli