Archive for November, 2008
Friday, November 14th, 2008
Dear Colleagues,
Many of you may already know the European Journal of ePractice (EjeP), but do you know that the next special edition is devoted entirely to eParticipation!
The 6th issue of the Journal provides a good chance to write articles based on our work and experiences and provide an excellent opportunity ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
The D.E.P.P. association, is proud to be part of the Pep-Net group and we are culpably starting to post on the blog only today (after severe reprimands by the organizers).
D.E.P.P. (https://www.depp.it) is a non-profit organisation, based in Italy, that has been active in the last few yars both in the ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Net working/Networking: Citizen Initiated Politics (eds. Tapio Häyhtiö & Jarmo Rinne)
Publisher: Tampere University Press
Net Working / Networking explores the variety in use and approaches to political participation and mobilisation occurring on the Internet. The chapters in the book represent various viewpoints mixing theory with empirical cases. Big politics is broken ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
E-Voting.CC, the competence centre for electronic voting and participation in Vienna, has started the first European E-Voting competition last January. Our aim was to get international submissions of single persons or teams who programmed an Internet voting system which can be used for association elections.
The submitted systems had to comply ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
The conference “Women&Technologies: research and innovation” was held in the context of IFIP WCC World Computer Congress (www.wcc2008.org). The whole day of the conference aimed to reflect, at the international level, on the situation of the presence of women in the scientific and NICTs worlds, on female contributions to innovation, ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
During the XXII Annual Conference of Italian Society of Political Science (www.sisp.it), held in Pavia last September, a wide space was dedicated to a theoretical and empirical reflection on participation and deliberation, on national and international political communication through the web, on participative and deliberative public policies, on ICT tools ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
and other citizen based approaches to change IT usage of Hungarian Government.
Since the Hungarian Taxation office has been producing the necesarry taxation program only for Windows based coputers, and has decided that all Hungarian businesses now have to submit their tax returns on-linem. The solution made online taxation not working ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Next Tuesday, November 11, UK's most popular annual conference on e-Democracy takes place at the spectacular headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects in the city of London.
Topics to be covered include e-democracy in local government, online citizen consultation, grassroots campaigns, open source software in e-democracy and much more.
As ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
So, it’s happened: the first major US ‘internet candidate’ has actually been elected.
There have been contenders in the past: the colourful governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, set the template for grassroots campaigning online. But so far, no US Presidential candidate has ever been able to make the internet work so ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
On Socialreporter David Wilcox published an interview with mySociety founder Tom Steinberg on the occaison of mySociety's fifth birthday. Congratulation Tom, keep on the good work!
Here is the videocast titled The five year journey from Civic Hacking Fund to mySociety:
Tom Steinberg at mySociety 5th anniversy party from David Wilcox on ...
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