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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
The Home Office in Great Britain adapted a plan which allows “police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant” according to the Times Online. This kind of remote search allows both police and MI5 officers to examine suspects’ hard drives, to install keylogging software or ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
2008 definitely was a great year for everybody involved in social media and the web in general as for example new forms of communication developed (micro-messaging), online video content went mainstream (Hulu) and the largest and most successful online campaign helped to make Barrack Obama into the oval office. But ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
There is no doubt that the large majority of internet users would agree that there has to be some sort of action against the proliferation of illegal content on the internet. The question is how this could be achieved without harming innocent and productive use of the web. In 2004 ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
The Council of ministers of the European Union issued a press release on November 27th which states the adoption of a strategy to reinforce the fight against cyber crime. Computer crime or cyber crime is a major problem of the networked world we live in. Spamming, Phishing and Identity theft ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
With the election of Barack Obama the United States will have an administration which by its own words is committed to concept of Open Government. The key principle of Open Government is that as much information about the governments’ activities should be available to the public as possible. ...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Electronic participation is often associated solely with political participation. But eParticipation tools are also used by companies like for example Starbucks. But Museums do not come to mind first when thinking about innovative ways to include the “users” into decision making processes. This first impression however is wrong. Many museums ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
As politically interested citizens and active members of the online community I assume we all would like to see our politicians to use as many of the great online communication tools as possible. There is no doubt that Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc. can be great to reach out to certain ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
In July of this year TuTech started its wide scale test of the-DEMOS Plan tool for participation in urban planning in the city of Hamburg. EU member states are required by law to involve the public in the planning process whenever the environment is concerned and DEMOS-Plan is aimed to ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
This years conference season is filled with very interesting events and the Forum in the Future of Democracy held by the Council of Europe in Madrid on October 15th to 17th was surely on of them. This regular event is aimed at covering a wide range of different topics connected ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
A few days ago I wrote and article about the State of Blogging today and claimed that blogging was not dead but maturing. The launch of Change.org´s social action blog network supports this point. Blogging has developed into one online tool among other to achieve distinct goals.
The change.org project ...
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