Archive for the ‘Visions’ Category
Monday, April 20th, 2009
by Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, Danish Technological Institute
Much has been reported about the successful campaigning, fund raising and support canvassing by the 2008 Obama election campaign. Still the use of ICT to increase electoral participation, campaigning, consultation and voting is not a uniquely US phenomena. A multitude of eParticipation and eDemocracy ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
We all know about the benefits of social networking but what about the pitfalls? The obvious one is distraction – it is estimated that social networks cost UK businesses £6.5 billion a year in lost productivity. That doesn’t mean I’m in favour of blacklisting such sites; instead I would encourage ...
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
The USA is having a hot period of reforming the government through web2.0 and participatory models - it has become quite obvious during the last times. It does also mean, that NGO's are helping to find the best policy through various means.
The leader of IT and transparency mashups, the Sunlight ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
In the Autonomous Community of Valencia, Spain, the General Board of Citizenship and Integration – Regional Ministry of Immigration & Citizenship, a new form of communication among citizens and municipalities has been implemented. The utility of this method is getting through the preliminary round. The Community of Valencia carries out ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
It has been more than 3 years ago, when the project on “Good Governance in the Information Society” (2005-2008) has been started between the walls of the Council of Europe.
The project focuses on how new information and communication technologies (ICT) affect the practice of democracy, human rights and the rule ...
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
For almost a decade I have been involved in the conceptualisation and realisation of eParticipation projects. Most of these projects were so-called moderated online discourses.
The basic idea of these discourses is to create a meaningful link between the general public or the electorate and politicians or governments, between those considered ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Forecasts of how technology and society will develop in the future are always difficult and get even more difficult if one tries to look in the far future - Or as the German comedian Volker Pispers said: “Would you have believed me ten years earlier that Romania will be part ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
The New Year has just started (at least, some parts of our vivid European culture) and we might be full with ideas, recommendations and suggestions to make our place a better place for participatory culture.
As modern physics basic findings gives us a solid ground to understand, how our thoughts affects ...
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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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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
According to the recently published Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions “Towards an accessible information society”(1.12.2008) eAccessibility and Web accessibility in particular have emerged as a high societal priority due to the growing importance ...
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