Archive for the ‘TuTech’ Category
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
The past day 21 of October, ASAEL attended to the conference on citizen participation in the Government of Aragon, as representative of the pan-European network, PEP-NET.
In Aragón, the citizen’s participation is still in a first step. Its activities started in 2004 in the framework of some activities of the ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Action required: Council of Europe asks for comments on final draft of policy recommendations on eDemocracy
The following text has been edited and distributed by Christoforos Korakas:
"The Council of Europe is finalising a rather important document meant to become a policy recommendation to its member states (47) on eDemocracy
The Draft ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
The annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers was held in Copenhagen last week. Under the title "Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place" 400 researchers visited the IT University of Copenhagen and presented their current work on Internet research on a broad range of topics.
Worth to mention - and probably the ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
This years conference season is filled with very interesting events and the Forum in the Future of Democracy held by the Council of Europe in Madrid on October 15th to 17th was surely on of them. This regular event is aimed at covering a wide range of different topics connected ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
The 9th World e-Democracy Forum took place on Thursday and Friday last week in Issy-les Moulineaux (Paris) – and was worth attending.
It is an open secret that the quality of conferences depends not only on the official programme, or maybe not even in the first place, but on the people ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
eDemocracy and eParticipation are on top of the agenda of different conferences in the next couple of weeks – three of which are taking place at the same time.
More and more conferences are focusing on topics like eDemocracy and eParticipation, that is the good news. Unfortunately the planning of these ...
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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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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
The US elections are just a month away and we have had some interesting uses of the internet and new technologies in the campaigning process.
As ever - due to the number of innovative high-tech companies in the US, the scale of the campaigns, and the amount of money spent – ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
In Jarfalla municipality in Sweden the work on improving and increasing democracy and participation began a few years ago. The work has been divided into many sub-projects, for example: democracy week, school visits and open meetings where citizens can ask questions and express opinions. Since 2004, residents in Jarfalla have ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
On September 15th the Participatory Budgeting Unit, a project by the Church Action against Poverty, organized the first National PB conference in Manchester (UK). For a short introduction to the topic the PB Unit does explain Participatory Budgeting and the reasons why it should be done very well on their ...
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