Archive for December, 2008
Friday, December 5th, 2008
On Wednesday 3rd December from 9 am to 5 pm an enquete was held in "Palais Harrach" in Vienna. It's topic was "A Chance for Political Participation through New Media". The enquete was organized by the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research (BMWF), which initiated a project this year to ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Discussion – Dialogue – Debate. That´s the slogan of the official discussion forum by the European Commission, “Debate Europe”. The Commission aims at actively listening to the public and getting involved into dialogue with citizens to raise trust in the European policy and to increase voter participation in the upcoming ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Received a piece of news concerning a new international conference on eParticipation which may be of interest to you.
As some of you probably know, 2009 will be the first time, ePart, a new International Conference on eParticipation (www.demo-net.org/epart), will take place following the 8th international EGOV conference 2009 (part ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
I was in Vienna on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday for the EU digital inclusion conference.
It was a hugely valuable event, with a large number of people from all over Europe attending to share expertise and knowledge of some really interesting projects.
One of the highlights was the announcement of the winners ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
The Council of ministers of the European Union issued a press release on November 27th which states the adoption of a strategy to reinforce the fight against cyber crime. Computer crime or cyber crime is a major problem of the networked world we live in. Spamming, Phishing and Identity theft ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Seven European initiatives won the European e-Inclusion Awards 2008 for their innovative uses of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to promote digital and social inclusion in Europe. The winners were announced at the e-Inclusion Ministerial Conference in Vienna (December 1), the concluding event of the Commission's 'Be Part of it!' ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
With the election of Barack Obama the United States will have an administration which by its own words is committed to concept of Open Government. The key principle of Open Government is that as much information about the governments’ activities should be available to the public as possible. ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Just found some interesting figures about the number of local authorities in different European countries:
As is increasingly recognised, UK local government already operates on a scale that would prompt most democratic countries to put inverted commas around ‘local’. Our 468 principal local authorities for the 60 million of us equate ...
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