Archive for March, 2009
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
This is a reply to the post: "Recommendation on E-democracy - adopted by the COE".
It shall clarify the critiques on the CAHDE working-group, posted here earlier, which – in our opinion – missed out some details about the project.
The Council of Europe (CoE) established in 2002 the Ad-Hoc Committee on ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
The eParticipation Day will physically take place in Brussels and live streamed here. Speakers are - among others - the PEP-NET partners Jeremy Millard, Dan Jellinek and Chuck Hirt. The conference programm is availbale here. PEP-NET is also exhibitor and Bengt and I will attend the conference. We will also ...
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
At a recent gala dinner for the Labour Party (long story why I was there), I was heartened and yet still suprised to hear the former UK Deputy Prime Minister extollling the virtues of Blackberries, Facebook and Twitter. 'I talk to Alistair (Cambell) all the time with this!' - he says waving ...
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Dan Jellinek’s rather despairing piece on “something sick at the heart of eDemocracy” must be seen, methinks, in the context of his overall enthusiasm for online debate. But he highlights a real and pressing issue. There is, indeed, evidence that online engagement can coarsen the debate. Especially when individuals are ...
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