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The Regional Parliament of Veneto in the field of e-Participation.

Monday, November 24th, 2008

The Regional Parliament of Veneto is grateful to Mr. Lührs and Mr. Feil and to all the founders and associated members of the network for having this opportunity to participate to a modern network which principal purpose consists in helping growing up in the field of e-Participation. The E-Democracy Office has ...

What Obama’s success really means for online politics

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 ...

Mi-Voice joins Pep-Net

Friday, October 10th, 2008

We have just joined pep-net and are excited about working with other organsiations within the network. Mi-Voice is an electronic voting and consultation tool which encourages people to participate in democratic events by allowing them to take part online or via a text message. Currently our products are mainly being used ...

The Online Race for the White House

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

The US elections are just a month away and we have had some interesting uses of the internet and new technologies in the campaigning process. As ever - due to the number of innovative high-tech companies in the US, the scale of the campaigns, and the amount of money spent – ...

View from the grassroot

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Since Hungarian language is a bit different from latin languages, the term, e-democracy and e-participation sounds really childish and does not give back the meaning behind. However, for us, community developers the terms like e-democracy and e-participation might have a different meaning as well - it might be some good ...

Blogging - what’s the point? (answer: Civic Surf)

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I’ve never been a big fan of blogs. Partly it was the word – there is a type of geek-techie who just loves to use a new word that no-one has ever heard of, just as everyone gets used to the old word – intranet, blog, web 2.0, whatever – as ...

Growing PEP-NET: Five new Associate Members

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

PEP-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 ...

BioTalk – An eParticipation Process for Hamburg’s Adolescents about Chances and Risks of Genetically Modified Food

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 ...

Asociación Ciudades Kyosei

Friday, June 27th, 2008

As most of you already know, our national, regional and local governments have so far failed to fully exploit the collaborative potential of the Internet. The most celebrated e-Democracy experiences have been modest experiments with little real effect and almost no continuity or scalability. e-Participation poses serious conflicts of interests ...

Örebro University – eDemocracy/eParticipation activities

Monday, June 9th, 2008

It is my pleasure to introduce Örebro University (Sweden) to PEP-net. I would like to use our first blog post to briefly introduce you to some of eParticipation researchers and activities at our school. Our young Örebro University has a broad spectrum of research in democracy—our slogan is “the democratic ...