Archive for April, 2009
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
ASAEL (Aragonese Association of Local Authorities), is developing the “eCLAU” Project in the framework of “Youth in Action” European Programme, which principal aim is to promote youth participation within the utilization of New Technologies in the UE environmental policy, specifically in the fight against climatic change.
The Project is being promoted ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
The rise of social media and social networking as part of it brought both advantages and problems to eParticipation projects. On the one hand online time is limited for each potential participant of an eParticipation effort, which means the more time a person spends on Facebook, Twitter etc. the less ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
by Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, Danish Technological Institute
Much has been reported about the successful campaigning, fund raising and support canvassing by the 2008 Obama election campaign. Still the use of ICT to increase electoral participation, campaigning, consultation and voting is not a uniquely US phenomena. A multitude of eParticipation and eDemocracy ...
Posted in News, Tools, Trends, Visions | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS EDEM09 https://edem2009.ocg.at/
2009 Conference on Electronic Democracy
7.-8.9.2009 University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna, Austria
Submissions deadline: 17 May 2009
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Democratic societies of today face the challenge of upgrading public dialogue and reinforcing citizens' participation in decision making, thus passing from an e-government to an e-governance model. eVoting is an important aspect of this effort, while at the same time is one of the most controversial issues at a technological, ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
We all know about the benefits of social networking but what about the pitfalls? The obvious one is distraction – it is estimated that social networks cost UK businesses £6.5 billion a year in lost productivity. That doesn’t mean I’m in favour of blacklisting such sites; instead I would encourage ...
Posted in Trends, Visions, good practice | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
The USA is having a hot period of reforming the government through web2.0 and participatory models - it has become quite obvious during the last times. It does also mean, that NGO's are helping to find the best policy through various means.
The leader of IT and transparency mashups, the Sunlight ...
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Workshop „ePolicy-Making“: legal requirements, preconditions, solutions.
Join us for 2-day workshop (please note: in German!) with Austrian eGovernment experts at the Danube University Krems, 7 and 8 May 2009.
Special rate for PEP-NET Members and Associates (75EUR)
More information: https://www.donau-uni.ac.at/egov/symposium
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
For the politik-digital.de video-feature “In Passing”, the Federal Minister of the Interior Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble reveals that he is filing his tax return online, explains the role of the state in the world of digital communication and hopes that more citizens will participate in democracy.
politik-digital.de: How do you use the ...
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Citizen freedoms are at the very heart of functioning democratic and civil societies and the amount of freedom citizens have while being online is certainly important in this regard. In the last years and months governments have passed laws and regulations which have restricted internet freedom: A recent example would ...
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