Archive for the ‘Trends’ Category
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Government effectiveness is key - says a recent report from Deutsche Bank Research - to enhance people's satisfaction about the quality of their lives. For most EU countries, allowing citizens more control over their own lives seems advisable and possible, and people should demand and practise this.
The main message of ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
2008 definitely was a great year for everybody involved in social media and the web in general as for example new forms of communication developed (micro-messaging), online video content went mainstream (Hulu) and the largest and most successful online campaign helped to make Barrack Obama into the oval office. But ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
There is no doubt that the large majority of internet users would agree that there has to be some sort of action against the proliferation of illegal content on the internet. The question is how this could be achieved without harming innocent and productive use of the web. In 2004 ...
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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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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
The Council of ministers of the European Union issued a press release on November 27th which states the adoption of a strategy to reinforce the fight against cyber crime. Computer crime or cyber crime is a major problem of the networked world we live in. Spamming, Phishing and Identity theft ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Just found some interesting figures about the number of local authorities in different European countries:
As is increasingly recognised, UK local government already operates on a scale that would prompt most democratic countries to put inverted commas around ‘local’. Our 468 principal local authorities for the 60 million of us equate ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
As politically interested citizens and active members of the online community I assume we all would like to see our politicians to use as many of the great online communication tools as possible. There is no doubt that Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc. can be great to reach out to certain ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
and other citizen based approaches to change IT usage of Hungarian Government.
Since the Hungarian Taxation office has been producing the necesarry taxation program only for Windows based coputers, and has decided that all Hungarian businesses now have to submit their tax returns on-linem. The solution made online taxation not working ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Round table discussion about Participatory Budgeting and ICT at the 9th World e-Democracy Forum in Paris, October 16, 9.00 - 10:30
Participatory budgeting is a method to involve ordinary citizens in the decision-making process of allocating municipal or public budgets. Proponents of this method suggest that this involvement leads to more ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
For all the promise of eParticipation initiatives, barriers to participation centric to eInclusion (such as digital literacy and access) loom as increasingly prevalent. A renewed fear is that expanding technological horizons will create fresh gaps between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’.
Next Generation Access (NGA) or, put simply, ‘fibre’ connections for superfast ...
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