Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Monday, May 18th, 2009
The „Bürgerforum Europa“, a web-based community launched on the initiative of the Bertelsmann Stiftung in cooperation with the Heinz Nixdorf Stiftung, assembles German citizens who care about Europe's future. By publishing their resolution, the so-called „BürgerProgramm“, the community members direct their claims now to Brussels.
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
Today at 08:00 am the first legally binding electronic election in Austrian history went online! The Austrian Federal Student Union is being elected starting today morning and running until Friday via a remote electronic channel. Next week from Tuesday the 26th until Thursday the 28th of May an ordinary, paper ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Votematch.eu opens with a bold statement: “ Good ideas catch on“, implying that the new online platform, which compares positions of political parties in the European Parliament with one’s own, is indeed such a good idea. The project, which is organised in a joint effort by the Institute for Political ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Finally our newest project has been released and delivered to our readers: The biannual free special interest magazine "Modern Democracy" by E-Voting.CC.
As I have announced in an earlier entry we issued the first edition of our magazine dealing with selected topics in the field of E-Democracy and it's newest developments. ...
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
The Obama campaign, the US election cycle and the role of the media/youtube was one of the big topics discussed at the eParticipation Day in Brussels on 4. March 2008.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst hosted the conference "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States" shortly after ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
For those who haven't decided yet on their favourite party for the elections in the European Union, 4-7 June 2009, a new interactive web feature, the EU-profiler, helps to make up your mind. The tool promises support in discovering the political landscape for the upcoming elections in Europe. However, its ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Last week, seven e-democracy enthusiasts and practitioners from the UK met in a bar/club/avant garde arts venue called the Shunt Lounge deep beneath London Bridge station (for which fascinating location, our thanks to Manar of UK Citizens Online Democracy).
We were gathered to discuss what shape the UK arm of ‘e-democracy.org’ ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
There are quite new "applicants" in this years EP elections all over Europe - small-big European parties now eligible Europewide for nominating candidates for the elections (for example Libertas.eu)
One, not among these bigger players has recieved attention in Hungary, by offering internet demorcacy, as a way and basic construction for ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
by Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, Danish Technological Institute
Much has been reported about the successful campaigning, fund raising and support canvassing by the 2008 Obama election campaign. Still the use of ICT to increase electoral participation, campaigning, consultation and voting is not a uniquely US phenomena. A multitude of eParticipation and eDemocracy ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS EDEM09 https://edem2009.ocg.at/
2009 Conference on Electronic Democracy
7.-8.9.2009 University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna, Austria
Submissions deadline: 17 May 2009
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