Archive for January, 2009
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Participation supported by electronic tools is not just limited to political topics – this has been stated in relation to eParticipation in many discussions. Keeping this in mind the Living Lab approach which aims at involving users and stakeholders into research and development processes by using innovative often time’s electronic ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
E-Voting.CC is currently working on a recent project to publish a magazine for the e-democracy community. The first issue of the magazine will deal with e-democracy in general, further issues will deal with e-voting in detail, e-participation projects and much more. The magazine will be distributed for free by post ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
One of the main challenges developing an international or pan-European online-dialogue lies in translating the user-generated comments. While the translation of editorial texts and navigation elements is a one-time-effort, the translation of user generated content (UGC) is a continuing, therefore expensive and time-consuming process. Language used in UGC resembles more ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
The Home Office in Great Britain adapted a plan which allows “police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant” according to the Times Online. This kind of remote search allows both police and MI5 officers to examine suspects’ hard drives, to install keylogging software or ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Well, the economic background is very bad for this year, as I am not the first to point out, and this will inevitably make this year tough going for many of us in the e-democracy community. Those of us in the private sector will have to tighten our belts, and ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
The New Year has just started (at least, some parts of our vivid European culture) and we might be full with ideas, recommendations and suggestions to make our place a better place for participatory culture.
As modern physics basic findings gives us a solid ground to understand, how our thoughts affects ...
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