What means Online Discourse?
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Bengt Feil, TuTech GmbH, PEP-Net:Online-Discourse from politik-digital on Vimeo.
Mylifemyid.org – or why online consultations aren’t PR
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008The UK is about to introduce identity cards from next year on. This introduction is part of the Government’s National Identity Scheme, which RT HON Jacqui Schmith MP, Home Secretary, believes to “give us all a new way to protect ourselves and our families against identity fraud, and to protect our ...
Growing PEP-NET: Five new Associate Members
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008PEP-NET welcomes five new associate members (in alphabetical order): Asociación Ciudades Kyosei The spanish-based association, the “Asociación Ciudades Kyosei” aims to provide a free non-partisan environment to foster municipal civic participation. NGOs, citizens, civil servants, politicians & media will be provided with tools to communicate, discuss, carry out participatory processes, coordinate internal ...
DEMOTIX: The citizen wire
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Getting rich while making the world a better place - this could be the mission of DEMOTIX Ltd. The company aims to be the first citizen wire, selling citizens generated photos & news to established media agencies. The mission and business idea is based on the analysis that Only ...
Urban planning 2.0: How eParticipation adds value
Friday, July 11th, 2008As experiences from the City of Hamburg (Germany) show, urban planning is one of the favoured topics for citizen participation on the Internet. It is a field where the strengths of eParticipation can be displayed to best advantage: relevant information, including geographical data, can be provided and displayed visually; results-oriented ...
2gether08: A festival of ideas, popular technologies and progress
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008By today the 2gether 2008 started its two day festival in London, UK. Digital innovations are changing our world, the way we perceive it and our notions of what is possible …. But are we doing enough or being imaginative enough to harness the potential of internet, mobile and games technologies to: promote ...
OneWebDay 2008: Online Participation in Democracy
Thursday, June 26th, 2008OneWebDay is September 22 every year, starting 2006. The focus is always on one key value of the Internet and this year it's online participation in Democracy! The Web is worth celebrating and ...we all - everyone around the physical globe - can celebrate the Web and what it means to us ...
ePetitions: Pro-Drilling Petition reached more than 1 m signatures in the US
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008As PoliticsOnline reported the online pro-drilling petition which President Bush and Sen. McCain recently endorsed, has generated more traffic than the anti-McCain ad published by MoveOn.org. The Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less online petition urges the U.S. Congress to “act immediately to lower gasoline prices (and diesel and other ...
Webinar on TID+ eParticipation tools
Monday, June 23rd, 2008The e-Governance Academy (Estonia) in cooperation with the European University Institute in Florence will host a webinar on e-tools for active citizens participation. These tools have been developed in the TID+ project part-financed by the European Commission. The main result of TID+(...) is a FOSS software tool that that can be ...
Political MySpace: EU plans social networking site for M(E)Ps
Friday, June 20th, 2008According to euobserver.com the EU is about to launch a social networking site in October this year. Myparl.eu aims to connect the MPs of the national parliaments among each other and with the Members of the European Parliament as well. The first official talks on the project, which is sponsored by ...
