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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
So, it’s happened: the first major US ‘internet candidate’ has actually been elected.
There have been contenders in the past: the colourful governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, set the template for grassroots campaigning online. But so far, no US Presidential candidate has ever been able to make the internet work so ...
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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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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Round table discussion about Participatory Budgeting and ICT at the 9th World e-Democracy Forum in Paris, October 16, 9.00 - 10:30
Participatory budgeting is a method to involve ordinary citizens in the decision-making process of allocating municipal or public budgets. Proponents of this method suggest that this involvement leads to more ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
The UK Ministry of Justice has recently released it's third phase report from a number of eParticipation pilots conducted by the various main UK government departments. This included blogs, Wikis and debate mapping tools.
Here are the 'juicy bits' from the Executive Summary:-
"Successful on-line engagement exercises stimulate high quality interactions: ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
As 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 ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
On 1st July 2008 the European Commission, DG INFSO, Unit F4, hosted a workshop by invitation entitled "Living Labs for User-driven Open Innovation". Aim of the workshop was to present and discuss the state of the art of European Living Labs under the operational, networking, and policy perspectives.
The establishment of ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
How to motivate hundreds of pupils to discuss the topic genetically modified food and to work out hundreds of argumentation cards voluntarily three weeks on the Internet while having fun?
The project BioTalk had undertaken this difficult approach which sounds slightly unrealistic. In the course of the project the project group ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
The online campaigns in the US presidential election 2008 gain momentum every day and with them the political comments by citizens on Web2.0 websites. There is for example a huge number of political bloggers who comment on the candidates, discuss issues and try to make their mark on the elections. ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Think before you act! Before setting up online communication tools, you need an communication strategy first! Don´t use Blogs and Social Media as means without ends - if you want to reach people, who should have something to say!
This sounds like good old common sense to most eDemocracy advocators and ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
In 2004 James Surowiecki in his famous book “The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations” discussed at length how collective decisions are made and that they can be much more rational and “correct” than those ...
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