Archive for May, 2009
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
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As a following to Politech Institute’s video “Public Actors in Second Life” the persistent online game created by its citizens SECOND LIFE VIDEO, I went back “in world “, rushed to the “search” option, and typed European Elections to see if something were happening there: I didn’t find a lot on that ...
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Sunday, May 17th, 2009
The e-Participation Action, a three-year initiative of the European Parliament, was launched by the European Commission in 2006.
Its main objective was to close the “Democratic Deficit” of the European Institutions using ICT (Information and Communication Technologies).
21 projects have been co-funded by European Commission. Amongst them a Specific Support Action ...
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Sunday, May 17th, 2009
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“Yes we can” is present as never! But do we really?
The presence on Internet seems to be import. Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are in the mouth of everybody.
Which politician can afford it this days to speak over the head of the potential voters?! It seems like this ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Votematch.eu opens with a bold statement: “ Good ideas catch on“, implying that the new online platform, which compares positions of political parties in the European Parliament with one’s own, is indeed such a good idea. The project, which is organised in a joint effort by the Institute for Political ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
It’s almost exactly a year ago since I was at the “Neue Verwaltung” (“new administration”) conference in Leipzig and described my impressions here of how eParticipation was faring in Germany’s public administrations. The verdict in a nutshell was: there’s a fair amount on offer to executive staff from German administrations ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Finally our newest project has been released and delivered to our readers: The biannual free special interest magazine "Modern Democracy" by E-Voting.CC.
As I have announced in an earlier entry we issued the first edition of our magazine dealing with selected topics in the field of E-Democracy and it's newest developments. ...
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
The Obama campaign, the US election cycle and the role of the media/youtube was one of the big topics discussed at the eParticipation Day in Brussels on 4. March 2008.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst hosted the conference "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States" shortly after ...
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