Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Democracy is the game where we can change the rules together! How do we make this game more serious, more fair and more fun? Please let us know if you are interested in convening a virtual session at this event on a topic of your choice, or collaborating with us ...
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Sunday, June 21st, 2009
In 2008, the Municipality of Venezia, in Italy, launched a new project, named “Amministrare 2.0”, with the intention to transform relationships between citizen and the institutions. The idea is to use new technologies to allow a direct access, without intermediation, to information and services designed to solve everyday problems, thanks ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Recent events in Iran show that the Internet is a form of media which can be used to support communication in democratic processes. However, the Internet is also a place where anonymous people can express discriminating opinions. At the end of the day, ICTs are the tools people make ...
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
On Tuesday (16.06.2009) the second participatory budgeting project has been launched in the city of Hamburg (1.8 million inhabitants).
It can be found here: www.buergerhaushalt-hamburg.de
The overall theme of the participation effort is to get citizens involved in the long term planning of the cities budget: How should money be ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
The finding of a new academic report that e-participation has a “surprisingly weak” effect on democratic decision-making, and on helping people to engage with democracy, should not come as too much of a surprise.
The report, ‘Empowering communities to influence local decision making – A systematic review of the evidence’ (https://fastlink.headstar.com/clg1), ...
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
The e-city Coordination initiative, in partnership with other Luxembourgish municipalities, European cities, public bodies, associations, citizens and businesses, aims at providing multichannel e-services to citizens. The project coordinates ICT-projects along the line of the City of Luxembourg’s technological and strategic plan respecting its political and administrative interests.
The e-City Coordination ...
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
Forums, blogs, and wikis are extensively used in current eParticipation
sites to gather user opinions on particular issues. However, such forms
of participation generally provide no structure to the information
gathered, so opportunity for analysis of the opinions is limited.
The WAVE project (Welcoming Argument Visualisation to Europe) https://www.wave-project.eu/ is part of the ...
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
A research paper "Empowering communities to influence local decision making", commissioned by the UK government and produced by De Montfort and Southampton University, was published earlier this month.
Its aim was to draw upon the international evidence base and make some conclusions about the relationship between citizen empowerment and eParticipation. The ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Microsoft recently introduced the Project Natal " a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun -- the ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
The European Parliament will proclaim the United States of Europe? EU will grant basic financial security for all its citizens? After so many rejected referenda and strong suspicions against European politics, these ideas sound out of touch. However, they are just two examples from 16 solutions worked out by 361 ...
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