Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category

ECC 2009 in Örebro, Sweden

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

The European Citizens Consultation Sweden gathered on 21-22 of March,  91 citizens in Örebro to develop the Swedish perspectives on the economic and social future of Europe. The citizens participating in the consultation were randomly invited according to criteria of representatively: different age groups, different educational levels, gender, geographical distribution, ...

An alternative insider’s view on CAHDE

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

This is a reply to the post: "Recommendation on E-democracy - adopted by the COE". It shall clarify the critiques on the CAHDE working-group, posted here earlier, which – in our opinion – missed out some details about the project. The Council of Europe (CoE) established in 2002 the Ad-Hoc Committee on ...

Second wave: European eParticipation deliverables are now available!

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 ...

Recommendation on E-democracy - adopted by the COE

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

It has been more than 3 years ago, when the project on “Good Governance in the Information Society” (2005-2008) has been started between the walls of the Council of Europe. The project focuses on how new information and communication technologies (ICT) affect the practice of democracy, human rights and the rule ...

Austrian E-Voting system ante portas

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

The Austrian student union elections of May 2009 are planned to be the first binding elections to be held via an electronic voting channel in Austria. After the E-Voting tests for these student elections in 2003 and for the presidential elections of 2004, the upcoming elections will have binding character. Back ...

Barcamp in Latvia, EdemocracyCamp

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 ...

eParticipation: 5 Questions, 5 Answers (#1)

Monday, January 26th, 2009

For almost a decade I have been involved in the conceptualisation and realisation of eParticipation projects. Most of these projects were so-called moderated online discourses. The basic idea of these discourses is to create a meaningful link between the general public or the electorate and politicians or governments, between those considered ...

Call for contributions: new magazine on e-participation and more

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

E-Voting.CC is currently working on a recent project to publish a magazine for the e-democracy community. The first issue of the magazine will deal with e-democracy in general, further issues will deal with e-voting in detail, e-participation projects and much more. The magazine will be distributed for free by post ...

Coming up next: eParticipation 2009

Monday, December 29th, 2008

For those of you interested in the intersection of politics and Internet 2009 will be a good year – probably. At least the political agenda looks promising. First of all we will see whether Barack Obama manages to integrate his huge online supporter community somehow in his political work. However this ...

The end of MyParl.eu

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

It was planned as a “political MySpace”: MyParl.eu should have been a networking site for Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and Members of the national parliaments (MPs), a virtual space to connect and share information and opinion. The project, financed with about 4 mio. Euro was first announced in ...