Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
The European Commission supports eParticpation with lots of different instruments and we are grateful that PEP-NET is among the funded projects. One of the main objectives of our network is, as you may know, to connect the scattered fragments of the eParticipation community or even to help establishing something worth ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
On Wednesday 3rd December from 9 am to 5 pm an enquete was held in "Palais Harrach" in Vienna. It's topic was "A Chance for Political Participation through New Media". The enquete was organized by the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research (BMWF), which initiated a project this year to ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Discussion – Dialogue – Debate. That´s the slogan of the official discussion forum by the European Commission, “Debate Europe”. The Commission aims at actively listening to the public and getting involved into dialogue with citizens to raise trust in the European policy and to increase voter participation in the upcoming ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
I was in Vienna on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday for the EU digital inclusion conference.
It was a hugely valuable event, with a large number of people from all over Europe attending to share expertise and knowledge of some really interesting projects.
One of the highlights was the announcement of the winners ...
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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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Monday, November 17th, 2008
On 15th November 2008, the first pan-European town meeting on climate change took place simultaneously in the three venues of Florence (Italy), Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona, Spain) and Poitiers (France), in the context of the IDEAL-EU project, one of the ongoing Preparatory Actions on eParticipation funded by the European Commission.
Some ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
The D.E.P.P. association, is proud to be part of the Pep-Net group and we are culpably starting to post on the blog only today (after severe reprimands by the organizers).
D.E.P.P. (https://www.depp.it) is a non-profit organisation, based in Italy, that has been active in the last few yars both in the ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
E-Voting.CC, the competence centre for electronic voting and participation in Vienna, has started the first European E-Voting competition last January. Our aim was to get international submissions of single persons or teams who programmed an Internet voting system which can be used for association elections.
The submitted systems had to comply ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
On Socialreporter David Wilcox published an interview with mySociety founder Tom Steinberg on the occaison of mySociety's fifth birthday. Congratulation Tom, keep on the good work!
Here is the videocast titled The five year journey from Civic Hacking Fund to mySociety:
Tom Steinberg at mySociety 5th anniversy party from David Wilcox on ...
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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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