Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category
Monday, January 5th, 2009
The New Year has just started (at least, some parts of our vivid European culture) and we might be full with ideas, recommendations and suggestions to make our place a better place for participatory culture.
As modern physics basic findings gives us a solid ground to understand, how our thoughts affects ...
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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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Friday, November 21st, 2008
Before Barack Obama can enter the White House he must surrender his beloved BlackBerry, a device pinned to his person throughout the presidential campaign.
Under the Presidential Records Act all his personal correspondence becomes part of the official record after he is sworn-in, making any emails open to public review. Since ...
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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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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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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Örebro University in cooperation with the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) is working on a project to develop a decision support system (DSS) which includes aspects of eDemocracy. The project will test and refine a model for transparent decision making and eParticipation (which we have tried earlier in another city) ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
A few days ago I wrote and article about the State of Blogging today and claimed that blogging was not dead but maturing. The launch of Change.org´s social action blog network supports this point. Blogging has developed into one online tool among other to achieve distinct goals.
The change.org project ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
It has been discussed on many different occasions how forms of electronic participation can help companies to keep in touch with their costumers, develop innovation and test products etc. The recent project MyStarbucksIdea showed how successful the use of eParticipation can be in such settings (a comprehensive article on this ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
The UK is about to introduce identity cards from next year on. This introduction is part of the Government’s National Identity Scheme, which RT HON Jacqui Schmith MP, Home Secretary, believes to
“give us all a new way to protect ourselves and our families against identity fraud, and to protect our ...
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