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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
“Many of us believe that technologies can be these great equalizers”. This statement by Danah Boyd at the Personal Democracy Forum 2009 holds true. Many of us do believe that technology can be an equalizer but it seems that this believe may not be true for popular social networks such ...
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
Thomas Gensemer is managing partner of Blue State Digital, the US-american think tank that had a significant share in the success story of Barack Obama's eCampaign. politik-digital.de met him at the Medienforum NRW, Cologne, and asked him about the possibilities and limitations of an Obama-like campaign in Germany...
Zwischen Tür und ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
While many traditional newspaper publishing companies are loosing their clients to the internet, social websites such as Facebook or MySpace are capturing new members every second. It appears that such websites are becoming the most effective means of distributing private or public information.
Indeed, citizens can express their political opinions ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
Replacing the old means of communication, internet has allowed people to stay in touch for a fraction of the cost and without any time delay. E-mail, social websites, forums, blogs and various chats facilitate an accessible and interactive conversation between individuals of any age. However, if we were to select ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Barack Obama’s electoral campaign represents a masterpiece in online-campaigning. The use of ICTs and the creation of an Obama-brand were the key features to mobilising the masses. Obama’s opponent, senator McCain, couldn’t motivate as many people to participate in his campaign.
Barack Obama was registered on more than a dozen different ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
The Austrian Expatriate World Council was founded in 1952 aiming to coordinate the various existing associations of Austrian citizens living abroad. Its primary function is to represent its members in front of the Austrian federal government, public authorities, political parties and relevant departments in the economic and cultural field. It ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
The finding of a new academic report that e-participation has a “surprisingly weak” effect on democratic decision-making, and on helping people to engage with democracy, should not come as too much of a surprise.
The report, ‘Empowering communities to influence local decision making – A systematic review of the evidence’ (https://fastlink.headstar.com/clg1), ...
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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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Friday, May 29th, 2009
In the process of editing a US academic paper for publication in next week’s E-Government Bulletin, I’ve just come across an interesting project developed in the US in the run-up to last year’s Presidential elections, which is a fun variation on some of the e-Participatory budgeting projects I’ve seen.
It’s called ...
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
El pasado 29 de abril de 2009, ASAEL celebró la Jornada “Participación de los Jóvenes en Europa: Luchando Juntos contra el Cambio Climático” en el Aula de Medio Ambiente Urbano, La Calle Indiscreta, con una duración de 9.00 a 18.00 horas.
La Asociación Aragonesa de Entidades Locales (ASAEL), a través del ...
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