Archive for May, 2009

Are The European Elections 2009 Taking-off on the Web?

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

After the Obamania that has inflamed the Web, we are still waiting at D-15 for the European Elections 2009 to take-off on the web. Besides a slow campaign from our political parties in Europe, the European Parliament has decided to launch video campaigns through its YouTube channel (EuropeanParliament channel). A young blond ...

ASAEL REALIZA UNAS JORNADAS SOBRE LA PARTICIPACIÓN DE LOS JÓVENES EN LA LUCHA CONTRA EL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

El pasado 29 de abril de 2009, ASAEL celebró la Jornada “Participación de los Jóvenes en Europa: Luchando Juntos contra el Cambio Climático” en el Aula de Medio Ambiente Urbano, La Calle Indiscreta, con una duración de 9.00 a 18.00 horas. La Asociación Aragonesa de Entidades Locales (ASAEL), a través del ...

ASAEL LEADS A SEMINAR ABOUT YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN THE EUROPEAN FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE.

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

On April 29th, ASAEL held the Seminar “Youth Participation in Europe: fighting together against climate change”, in the Urban Environment room, la Calle Indiscreta, from 9am to 6pm. The Aragonese Association of Local Authorities (ASAEL), through the project “eCLAU”, approved under the European Program “Youth in Action”, has realized a seminar ...

Learning about eParticipation through social bookmarking

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

  Last December, a post was published under the title How we could syndicate eParticipation related resources really simple.  In his post, we’ve learned about social bookmarking and especially delicious.com. Delicious.com is a Yahoo service allowing people to save their favorites online and share them with the community. This post is going more into ...

How to better use Second Life as a Public Entity - Part 2

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Following to my post “How to better use Second Life as a Public Entity”, let see now what can be the return of investment... - First, by its presence: the image of the Institution will benefit from the media covering and the influx of public in-world. Its lack of Second ...

EUROPEAN eDEMOCRACY AWARD 2009 - CALL FOR APPLICANTS

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

The Call for applicants for the European eDemocracy Awards closes on 31 May 2009. The European eDemocracy Awards is an annual award honouring the most valuable European eDemocracy initiative amongst 50 selected websites in the EU 27. The Award features a wide range of eDemocracy tools and content strengthening eParticipation, transparency, representative ...

Workshop on eDemocracy and eParticipation: A research-oriented perspective on June 12th in Brussels

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

The Directorate General for Information Society and Media will join forces with the study on "Bringing Together and Accelerating eGovernment Research in the EU" will organise a Workshop entitled eDemocracy and eParticipation: A research-oriented perspective on June 12th in Brussels. At this workshop different experts will do presentations and discussion on ...

Citizens care about Europe

Monday, May 18th, 2009

The „Bürgerforum Europa“, a web-based community launched on the initiative of the Bertelsmann Stiftung in cooperation with the Heinz Nixdorf Stiftung, assembles German citizens who care about Europe's future. By publishing their resolution, the so-called „BürgerProgramm“, the community members direct their claims now to Brussels.

Austrian E-Voting is successfully started!

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Today at 08:00 am the first legally binding electronic election in Austrian history went online! The Austrian Federal Student Union is being elected starting today morning and running until Friday via a remote electronic channel. Next week from Tuesday the 26th until Thursday the 28th of May an ordinary, paper ...

Wolfram Alpha: Computational knowledge for increased transparency?

Monday, May 18th, 2009

It is generally accepted that availability of public and parliament data in standardized formats like XML helps to increase transparency. Websites like Recovery.gov, which gives detailed information about the use of public funds to strengthen the economy in the USA, have been praised for being great examples of this kind ...