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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Those of you at the recent EC eParticipation day will know that Jeremy Millard from the Danish Technological Institute gave the opening overview. This contained a number of interesting points.
Firstly, he recognised the void in terms of a common European public space - later demonstrating ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Moving a step closer to making the final recommendations for EU level actions the European eParticipation Study’s has just published its second wave of deliverables. The documents are available on www.european-eparticipation.eu (Publication/Public Deliverables section).
The second wave of project deliverables consists of the following eight documents:
• Major factors shaping the development ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
With over three quarters of Europeans unaware of the forthcoming EU parliamentary elections, an innovative viral marketing campaign has been devised to help spread the word. The aim is to improve the low voting and engagement figures and achieve a turnout of more than 25% in each of the key ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
After the summer TechTools workshop in Prague, organized by Transitions Online, which has gathered many organizations from the CEE region, dealing with transparency issues and the possibilities of new technologies, the second round of the workshop is boundled together with a Barcamp event, in Riga, Latvia in the begining of ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Barack Obama's Transition Team promised to build the most open and tansparent transition of all times. How did they carry on Obama's sucessful online election campaign and how did they involve citizens online? We had a close look at the engagement tools used on change.gov - the Citizen's Briefing ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Seven European initiatives won the European e-Inclusion Awards 2008 for their innovative uses of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to promote digital and social inclusion in Europe. The winners were announced at the e-Inclusion Ministerial Conference in Vienna (December 1), the concluding event of the Commission's 'Be Part of it!' ...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Nine projects working to engage people in local and national decision-making have won funding from the government's Building Democracy Innovation Fund, five of which are eParticipation projects:
Yoosk.com: An online question time linking the public with local and central government.
(Run by Thumbsize Ltd.)
UK Feedback: An online forum for feedback about public ...
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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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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Dear Colleagues,
Many of you may already know the European Journal of ePractice (EjeP), but do you know that the next special edition is devoted entirely to eParticipation!
The 6th issue of the Journal provides a good chance to write articles based on our work and experiences and provide an excellent opportunity ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
and other citizen based approaches to change IT usage of Hungarian Government.
Since the Hungarian Taxation office has been producing the necesarry taxation program only for Windows based coputers, and has decided that all Hungarian businesses now have to submit their tax returns on-linem. The solution made online taxation not working ...
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