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Weekly eParticipation News digest November 1st – 13th 200913. November 2009 – 10:00 by Rolf Luehrs |
Our weekly edition has this time become a 2-weekly news digest – we were probably to busy last week..:-)
Only four days left to endors the
Open declaration on public services 2.0
Every two years, EU Ministers gather to agree on a Ministerial Declaration on e-government, which is the main European strategic document. This is usually accompanied by an Industry declaration.
David Osimo (Tech4i2 ltd) and Paul Johnston (Cisco) started an initiative to add an open declaration, collaboratively built and endorsed by EU citizens who share the view that the web is transforming our society and our governments.
They and many supporters believe that e-government policies in Europe could learn from the open, meritocratic, transparent and user-driven culture of the web. The declaration which has been developed collaboratively during the past months is now waiting to be endorsed by as much people as possible. It will be presented officially at the EU ministerial conference on e-government, in Malmo November 18-20, 2009.
Please read the declaration and if you agree with it, endorse it as soon as possible.
ParticipateDB
Intelletics, an US based startup claiming to “make e-participation better”, started to build up a directory of online tools for participation called participateDB.
The site aims to build a comprehensive guide to the many online tools for public participation and related forms of citizen engagement — large and small, commercial and open source, mature and experimental — as well as the context in which they are being applied.
ParticipateDB is currently in closed alpha. Once the site is fully functional, ParticipateDB will allow anyone to register and add or edit content. Site content will be freely available and licensed for easy reuse and sharing. A beta version is set to launch in the Fall of 2009.
New Gov2.0 book
State of the eUnion: Government 2.0 and Onwards
“In many ways, eGovernment has come of age. The use of IT and digital media is today part of everything government does, so the ‘e’ is becoming obsolete. ‘eGovernment is just Government,’ as the saying goes, but it is important to realise that the ‘e’ has changed government forever, and will keep doing so, and hence we now talk about Government 2.0, “ editor John Gøtze explains.
The book includes contributions of Don Tapscott, Lawrence Lessing, Tim O’Reilly, David Weinberger and many others.
State of the eUnion will be published both in print (sold via Amazon, B&N, etc) and online (free). The content is licensed under a Creative Commons license, and the complete book will be available for free online at 21gov.net. Follow @gov20book on Twitter for updates.
Upcoming events
Further to the EU ministerial conference on e-government, two of the most exiting conferences about eParticipation, Internet and Politics are awaiting us in November:
The Personal Democracy Forum Europe, taking place November 20-21 in Barcelona, and the Future-Democracy ’09, 25th November in London. Look forward to seeing you there….
Rolf
