Archive for the ‘Visions’ Category
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
With the election of Barack Obama the United States will have an administration which by its own words is committed to concept of Open Government. The key principle of Open Government is that as much information about the governments’ activities should be available to the public as possible. ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Net working/Networking: Citizen Initiated Politics (eds. Tapio Häyhtiö & Jarmo Rinne)
Publisher: Tampere University Press
Net Working / Networking explores the variety in use and approaches to political participation and mobilisation occurring on the Internet. The chapters in the book represent various viewpoints mixing theory with empirical cases. Big politics is broken ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
and other citizen based approaches to change IT usage of Hungarian Government.
Since the Hungarian Taxation office has been producing the necesarry taxation program only for Windows based coputers, and has decided that all Hungarian businesses now have to submit their tax returns on-linem. The solution made online taxation not working ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
The financial crises threatens the world economy and experts call for immediate action. Are we facing bad times for (e-) democracy or are we on the verge of a revolution in participation in government?
The logic is simple: In case of emergency there is no time for long debates and the ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
AmericaSpeaks organizes large-scale town-meetings on political issues and wants to get people engaged in the decission-making process. To widen the public outreach and to foster a diverse and representative participation, online methods play a more and more important role.
Susanna Haas Lyons from AmericaSpeaks visited the BerlinInJuly conference on eDemocracy, organized ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
On July 17th and 18th, the BerlinInJuly un-conference on eDemocracy concregated 35 eDemocracy professionals from about a dozen countries to communicate about their field of acticity. Organized by politik-digital.de, Tom Steinberg of mysociety.com, and Christian Heise of e-demokratie.org / e-politik.de the conference took place in the premises of one of ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
That was the title of a workshop at a major Germany-wide conference in Leipzig with almost 1000 participants from public administrations. Topics during the two-day conference centred on the theme of eGovernment. Among the subjects discussed were trends and strategies of eGovernment in the future, acceptance (or otherwise) by users, ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
On 1st July 2008 the European Commission, DG INFSO, Unit F4, hosted a workshop by invitation entitled "Living Labs for User-driven Open Innovation". Aim of the workshop was to present and discuss the state of the art of European Living Labs under the operational, networking, and policy perspectives.
The establishment of ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Petitions, on-line and off-line, have stirred-up a frenzy of debate recently with the advent of two important milestones in the UK. Firstly the preparatory stages of an ePetitioning system for UK Parliament and secondly a possible ‘duty to respond’ for Local Authorities. Let’s not also forget a possible EC ePetitioning ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
To consult the Australian public, strengthen the participatory process and outcome Kevin Rudd (Australian Prime Minister) announced in February 2008 an Australia 2020 Summit to help shape a long term strategy for the nation’s future – a strategy requiring long-term commitment and responses beyond the usual electoral cycle. In this ...
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