Archive for the ‘Trends’ Category
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Hurry, if you want to get in touch with the latest trends of eCampaigning.
The 6th annual eCampaigning Forum takes place in Oxford, UK. from 31 Mar.-1 Apr.
1. Learn with others how to get the most out of your eCampaingning despite budget cutbacks and redundancies in the current recession.
2. ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Over the course of the last weeks and months we heard a lot about major newspapers starting to go online only or shutting down their operations altogether. The Rocky Mountain News´s last issue appeared on February 27th 2009 and the San Francisco Chronicle is also in a very unstable position. ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Earlier this month, Queen Elizabeth II witnessed the third re-launch of the British Monarchy Website (www.royal.gov.uk). The Queen is apparently keen to keep the younger generation tuned-in to the monarchy, hence the web site facelift.
The first incarnation was launched back in 1997. The site was visited over 100 million times ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
On first glance both transparency of political processes and the privacy of the individual citizen are valuable goods and should be achieved alongside each other. The technologies of new media can help to advance both of these goals: Government data can be provided in a structured way to increase transparency ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Forecasts of how technology and society will develop in the future are always difficult and get even more difficult if one tries to look in the far future - Or as the German comedian Volker Pispers said: “Would you have believed me ten years earlier that Romania will be part ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Participation supported by electronic tools is not just limited to political topics – this has been stated in relation to eParticipation in many discussions. Keeping this in mind the Living Lab approach which aims at involving users and stakeholders into research and development processes by using innovative often time’s electronic ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
One of the main challenges developing an international or pan-European online-dialogue lies in translating the user-generated comments. While the translation of editorial texts and navigation elements is a one-time-effort, the translation of user generated content (UGC) is a continuing, therefore expensive and time-consuming process. Language used in UGC resembles more ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
The Home Office in Great Britain adapted a plan which allows “police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant” according to the Times Online. This kind of remote search allows both police and MI5 officers to examine suspects’ hard drives, to install keylogging software or ...
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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 ...
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