Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Discussion – Dialogue – Debate. That´s the slogan of the official discussion forum by the European Commission, “Debate Europe”. The Commission aims at actively listening to the public and getting involved into dialogue with citizens to raise trust in the European policy and to increase voter participation in the upcoming ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Received a piece of news concerning a new international conference on eParticipation which may be of interest to you.
As some of you probably know, 2009 will be the first time, ePart, a new International Conference on eParticipation (www.demo-net.org/epart), will take place following the 8th international EGOV conference 2009 (part ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Just found some interesting figures about the number of local authorities in different European countries:
As is increasingly recognised, UK local government already operates on a scale that would prompt most democratic countries to put inverted commas around ‘local’. Our 468 principal local authorities for the 60 million of us equate ...
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
On 17th November the European Commission published the new Work Programme for the ICT theme of the FP7 Specific Programme 'Cooperation', defining the priorities for calls for proposals closing in 2009 and 2010 and the criteria that will be used for evaluating the proposals responding to these calls.
A specific objective ...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Electronic participation is often associated solely with political participation. But eParticipation tools are also used by companies like for example Starbucks. But Museums do not come to mind first when thinking about innovative ways to include the “users” into decision making processes. This first impression however is wrong. Many museums ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Dear Colleagues,
Many of you may already know the European Journal of ePractice (EjeP), but do you know that the next special edition is devoted entirely to eParticipation!
The 6th issue of the Journal provides a good chance to write articles based on our work and experiences and provide an excellent opportunity ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Örebro University in cooperation with the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) is working on a project to develop a decision support system (DSS) which includes aspects of eDemocracy. The project will test and refine a model for transparent decision making and eParticipation (which we have tried earlier in another city) ...
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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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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
As part of the ongoing eParticipation study eParticipation Study - titled “Study and supply of services on the development of eParticipation in the EU” - for the European Commission (DG Information Society and Media) the following project deliverables has been submitted to the client and now published:
eParticipation good practice ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Almost all eParticipation projects are combinations of social methods and some sort of web based technology. At the BerlininJuly summit 2008 we discussed the aspect of open source technology for eParticipation which lead to some interesting thoughts and conclusions.
In many cases the persons developing these technologies want to share ...
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