Archive for the ‘TuTech’ Category
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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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Received a piece of news concerning a new international conference on eParticipation which may be of interest to you.
As some of you probably know, 2009 will be the first time, ePart, a new International Conference on eParticipation (www.demo-net.org/epart), will take place following the 8th international EGOV conference 2009 (part ...
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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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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Seven European initiatives won the European e-Inclusion Awards 2008 for their innovative uses of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to promote digital and social inclusion in Europe. The winners were announced at the e-Inclusion Ministerial Conference in Vienna (December 1), the concluding event of the Commission's 'Be Part of it!' ...
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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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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Although a bit late, I would like to share some of my impressions from Dan Jellinek’s (headstar) e-Democracy conference which took place in London Tuesday this week.
First of all: I enjoyed the conference very much! The RIBA was a real nice venue and lots of interesting plenary sessions and workshops ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
The conference “Women&Technologies: research and innovation” was held in the context of IFIP WCC World Computer Congress (www.wcc2008.org). The whole day of the conference aimed to reflect, at the international level, on the situation of the presence of women in the scientific and NICTs worlds, on female contributions to innovation, ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
During the XXII Annual Conference of Italian Society of Political Science (www.sisp.it), held in Pavia last September, a wide space was dedicated to a theoretical and empirical reflection on participation and deliberation, on national and international political communication through the web, on participative and deliberative public policies, on ICT tools ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Next Tuesday, November 11, UK's most popular annual conference on e-Democracy takes place at the spectacular headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects in the city of London.
Topics to be covered include e-democracy in local government, online citizen consultation, grassroots campaigns, open source software in e-democracy and much more.
As ...
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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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