Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 9th, 2008
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 ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Online/offline discussion and webcast with Tim Bernes Lee (inventor of the www) and other experts about the future of the web and how web 3.0 may look like.
The event will be hosted by Rensselaer Politech Institute in cooperation with the tech blog ReadWriteWeb. Online/offline discussion and webcast with Tim Bernes-Lee ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
The draft report together with the agenda, presentations and list of participants from the first eParticipation Study workshop “eParticipation in Europe: current state and potential” on 16 May 2008 in Brussels (BE) is now available on www.european-eparticipation.eu (under workshop 1)
The workshop reports summaries of the presentations are not meant to ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
The Hungarian landscape of e-democracy is like the Great Hungarian Plain. There are no hills on this field and the soil is ready for good seeds. The Hungarian e-government developments and strategy from the central government are not following the path of the fruitful cooperation with the civil sector, in ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Here in the UK, central government has been quite good overall in funding e-participation projects and trials compared with many other European countries, from what I understand from talking to fellow Pep-Netters.
However, responsibility for e-participation policy has tended to be quite fragmented, with many different government departments and agencies having ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
As most of you know the website facebook is a so called social network site. It helps to stay in contact with people you know, to find new people who are interested in the same topics as you are or to collaborate within virtual groups. But is facebook already used ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
On May 30th the European Commission released the Draft Work Programme 2008 – ePARTICIPATION in legislative and decision-making processes. The call for proposals will start in early June and end on August 29th (to be confirmed) and will distribute a total budget of 5 million €. The detailed timetable for ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
In eParticipation efforts there is often the need to discuss and edit texts with a larger group of persons. They may be drafts of law texts, papers for parliaments or even recommendations for urban planning. This kind of work is often problematic and needs special attention by those who conduct ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Here we summarise some results of the brainstorming session held during the Kick-Off meeting among representatives of NGOs and Public Administrations.
The mixed nature of participants in the consortium was seen as a big value for the exchange of experiences, viewpoints and collaboration opportunities.
A strong expectation from participant municipalities was to ...
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