Archive for September, 2009

PEP-NET / Conferences Vote - the Results

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

PEP-NET members been thinking about how to collaborate and organise the conferences they organise. One idea was to jointly present the conferences under a PEP-NET framework. Getting the yearly conferences together was not too difficult, the challenge wa to find a title. During the month of August, all PEP-NET members were invited to ...

Pre-registration for “eGovernment Research and Innovation: Empowering Citizens through Government Services across Sectors and Borders” now open

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

As you may know a pre-conference to the 5th Ministerial eGovernment Conference 2009 is under preparation. The conference is hosted under the Swedish Presidency of the EU, and is arranged by Vinnova, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, and the City of Malmö. Under the title “eGovernment Research and Innovation: ...

Are adolescents abandoning social networking sites?

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

According to a survey conducted by Ofcom the percentage of 15- to 24-year-olds Britain who have a profile on a social networking site has dropped for the first time – from 55% at the start of last year to 50% this year. In contrast, 46% of 25- to 34-year-olds are ...

Openparlamento.it - the index of activity

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

In this second article about Openparlamento.it, we'll introduce the index of activity, an index we created to measure and compare, from a strtictly quantitative point of view, the activities of the elected officials in the Parliament. The index has been publicly discussed in one of the openpolis mailing lists for some ...

España trabaja para un nuevo modelo de gobernanza del Espacio Europeo de Investigación

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

La Presidencia Española, en el primer semestre de 2010, se ha comprometido a preparar una sólida propuesta de la estructura de la Gobernanza del ERA. España está trabajando ya en el diseño de un nuevo modelo para la gobernanza del Espacio Europeo de Investigación (ERA en sus siglas en inglés), que ...

Spain works on a new governance model for the European Research Area

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

The Spanish Presidency in the first half of 2010, has committed to prepare a solid proposal for the structure of governance of ERA. Spain is working on designing a new governance model for the European Research Area (ERA in its English acronym), which is expected to be approve in conjunction ...

EDem 09 – Live-Reports and PEP-NET-Benefits

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Next Monday and Tuesday, 7th and 8th of September 2009, the University of Economics and Business in Vienna will host the annual Conference on eDemocracy – Edem09. The Centre for E-Government, Danube-University Krems, will report live from this conference. You can follow our reports on our Blog, on Twitter and on ...