Archive for October, 2008
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
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 ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
eDemocracy and eParticipation are on top of the agenda of different conferences in the next couple of weeks – three of which are taking place at the same time.
More and more conferences are focusing on topics like eDemocracy and eParticipation, that is the good news. Unfortunately the planning of these ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
We have just joined pep-net and are excited about working with other organsiations within the network.
Mi-Voice is an electronic voting and consultation tool which encourages people to participate in democratic events by allowing them to take part online or via a text message. Currently our products are mainly being used ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
A few days ago I wrote and article about the State of Blogging today and claimed that blogging was not dead but maturing. The launch of Change.org´s social action blog network supports this point. Blogging has developed into one online tool among other to achieve distinct goals.
The change.org project ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Round table discussion about Participatory Budgeting and ICT at the 9th World e-Democracy Forum in Paris, October 16, 9.00 - 10:30
Participatory budgeting is a method to involve ordinary citizens in the decision-making process of allocating municipal or public budgets. Proponents of this method suggest that this involvement leads to more ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
The US elections are just a month away and we have had some interesting uses of the internet and new technologies in the campaigning process.
As ever - due to the number of innovative high-tech companies in the US, the scale of the campaigns, and the amount of money spent – ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
For all the promise of eParticipation initiatives, barriers to participation centric to eInclusion (such as digital literacy and access) loom as increasingly prevalent. A renewed fear is that expanding technological horizons will create fresh gaps between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’.
Next Generation Access (NGA) or, put simply, ‘fibre’ connections for superfast ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
From September 29th till the 30th the edem08 conference took place in beautiful Krems / Austria. Organized by the Danube University together with the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration two interesting days date back. After evote08 (organised by pep-net member e-voting.cc) the edem08 conference focussed on the broad ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
The European Comission has launched the Financial Tranasparency System yesterday, by Administration and Anti-Fraud Commissioner Siim Kallas. The website will making details of the beneficiaries of EU funding publicly available for the first time.
(EurActive.com)
One of the basics of working Edemocracy is transparency. But what do citizens require in relation to ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Since Hungarian language is a bit different from latin languages, the term, e-democracy and e-participation sounds really childish and does not give back the meaning behind. However, for us, community developers the terms like e-democracy and e-participation might have a different meaning as well - it might be some good ...
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