Archive for the ‘Trends’ Category
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Recent events in Iran show that the Internet is a form of media which can be used to support communication in democratic processes. However, the Internet is also a place where anonymous people can express discriminating opinions. At the end of the day, ICTs are the tools people make ...
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
Forums, blogs, and wikis are extensively used in current eParticipation
sites to gather user opinions on particular issues. However, such forms
of participation generally provide no structure to the information
gathered, so opportunity for analysis of the opinions is limited.
The WAVE project (Welcoming Argument Visualisation to Europe) https://www.wave-project.eu/ is part of the ...
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
A research paper "Empowering communities to influence local decision making", commissioned by the UK government and produced by De Montfort and Southampton University, was published earlier this month.
Its aim was to draw upon the international evidence base and make some conclusions about the relationship between citizen empowerment and eParticipation. The ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Microsoft recently introduced the Project Natal " a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun -- the ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Who was not moved 20 years ago by that young chinese protester who stopped a tank at Tiananmen Square ?
1989 Tiananmen Square Protests
20 years later for the Anniversary of this wind of change that has blew up in the smoke of the repression, China is cracking down on social ...
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Activists in the digital arena has to face with many different challenges - security, mobile enviroments, advance tools in citizen journalism and others.
The group called TacticalTechnologyCollective does a great and unique job on delivering strategic thinking guides and useful out of the box solutions and their collections for the new generations of activists ...
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
At the eParticipation Day 2009 in Brussels the Regione Toscana did an instant poll among the attendees asking them what they think eParticipation should achieve and what its actual impact will be. Francesco Molinari wrote an article about this effort and its results on this blog earlier on. The persons ...
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
After the Obamania that has inflamed the Web, we are still waiting at D-15 for the European Elections 2009 to take-off on the web.
Besides a slow campaign from our political parties in Europe, the European Parliament has decided to launch video campaigns through its YouTube channel (EuropeanParliament channel).
A young blond ...
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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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Monday, May 18th, 2009
It is generally accepted that availability of public and parliament data in standardized formats like XML helps to increase transparency. Websites like Recovery.gov, which gives detailed information about the use of public funds to strengthen the economy in the USA, have been praised for being great examples of this kind ...
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