Friday, July 11th, 2008
As experiences from the City of Hamburg (Germany) show, urban planning is one of the favoured topics for citizen participation on the Internet. It is a field where the strengths of eParticipation can be displayed to best advantage: relevant information, including geographical data, can be provided and displayed visually; results-oriented ...
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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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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
As you may already be aware the European Commission (DG Information Society and Media) funded eParticipation Study - titled “Study and supply of services on the development of eParticipation in the EU” - is currently underway and in this connection the first wave of deliverable has now been prepared and ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
How to motivate hundreds of pupils to discuss the topic genetically modified food and to work out hundreds of argumentation cards voluntarily three weeks on the Internet while having fun?
The project BioTalk had undertaken this difficult approach which sounds slightly unrealistic. In the course of the project the project group ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
OneWebDay is September 22 every year, starting 2006. The focus is always on one key value of the Internet and this year it's online participation in Democracy!
The Web is worth celebrating and
...we all - everyone around the physical globe - can celebrate the Web and what it means to us ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
On 18 June 2008 Casaba Madarasz from Option.hu Ltd. in Hungary became person number 100 to register as a member of the eParticipation and eDemocracy Network on www.epractice.eu.
The eParticipation and eDemocracy Network is open to all interested in these issues, whether at sub-national, national, European or trans-national levels. The ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
post by Madarász Csaba, e-participation project leader of the CEE Citizens Network
The communicational and technical trends of the internet are offering a wide range of possibilities for channeling communication based contribution from various entities of the society (Artificial Intelligences are a bit behind us).
It is likely to know, that ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
As PoliticsOnline reported the online pro-drilling petition which President Bush and Sen. McCain recently endorsed, has generated more traffic than the anti-McCain ad published by MoveOn.org. The Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less online petition urges the U.S. Congress to “act immediately to lower gasoline prices (and diesel and other ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
The e-Governance Academy (Estonia) in cooperation with the European University Institute in Florence will host a webinar on e-tools for active citizens participation. These tools have been developed in the TID+ project part-financed by the European Commission.
The main result of TID+(...) is a FOSS software tool that that can be ...
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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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