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Learning about eParticipation through social bookmarking

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

  Last December, a post was published under the title How we could syndicate eParticipation related resources really simple.  In his post, we’ve learned about social bookmarking and especially delicious.com. Delicious.com is a Yahoo service allowing people to save their favorites online and share them with the community. This post is going more into ...

How to better use Second Life as a Public Entity - Part 2

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Following to my post “How to better use Second Life as a Public Entity”, let see now what can be the return of investment... - First, by its presence: the image of the Institution will benefit from the media covering and the influx of public in-world. Its lack of Second ...

Citizens care about Europe

Monday, May 18th, 2009

The „Bürgerforum Europa“, a web-based community launched on the initiative of the Bertelsmann Stiftung in cooperation with the Heinz Nixdorf Stiftung, assembles German citizens who care about Europe's future. By publishing their resolution, the so-called „BürgerProgramm“, the community members direct their claims now to Brussels.

Austrian E-Voting is successfully started!

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Today at 08:00 am the first legally binding electronic election in Austrian history went online! The Austrian Federal Student Union is being elected starting today morning and running until Friday via a remote electronic channel. Next week from Tuesday the 26th until Thursday the 28th of May an ordinary, paper ...

The dawning of “Modern Democracy”

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Finally our newest project has been released and delivered to our readers: The biannual free special interest magazine "Modern Democracy" by E-Voting.CC. As I have announced in an earlier entry we issued the first edition of our magazine dealing with selected topics in the field of E-Democracy and it's newest developments. ...

E-democracy Workshop Association - event in Hungary

Monday, April 27th, 2009

With a small press coverage, about 30 participants has been enjoying various dreams, observing concrete projects and hearing different voices about e-democracy. The association leader, Laszlo János has made clear his view on e-democracy in Hungary: although everything is present on the material plane for e-democracy, nor the civil society, nor ...

7th Eastern Europe eGovernment Days Continue to Exceed Expectations

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Once again Irina Zalisova and her team and European Projects and Management (EPMA) in Prague have run what has to be one of the absolute highlights of the eGovernment Conference circuit.  Hosted in the lovely Brevnov Monastery, this year’s event attracted over 100 of the top eGovernment practitioners from throughout ...

So much e-participation. But how much e-democracy?

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Wednesday the 8th of April the Emilia-Romagna Region, with the partnership of Pep-Net and the scientific collaboration of the University of Bergamo, organised the international seminar “E-democracy 2.0: Institutions, citizens and new networks: a potential lexicon”. Around 200 people were present to the event, which was really interesting for the ...

Open Source Software and Public Trust in eVoting

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Democratic societies of today face the challenge of upgrading public dialogue and reinforcing citizens' participation in decision making, thus passing from an e-government to an e-governance model. eVoting is an important aspect of this effort, while at the same time is one of the most controversial issues at a technological, ...

State of Internet Freedom – Report

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Citizen freedoms are at the very heart of functioning democratic and civil societies and the amount of freedom citizens have while being online is certainly important in this regard. In the last years and months governments have passed laws and regulations which have restricted internet freedom: A recent example would ...