Don’t Vote in the German Federal election 2009

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

For the upcoming German Federal election 2009, politik-digital.de, in a joint project with pro-bono TV production, published a video clip which shows various celebrities telling not to vote. You can watch the clip here (sorry, I couldn't embed the clip): Geh nicht hin! For those of you who are non-German speakers, find ...

Politics 2.0 - The Obama Campaign

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Barack Obama’s electoral campaign represents a masterpiece in online-campaigning. The use of ICTs and the creation of an Obama-brand were the key features to mobilising the masses. Obama’s opponent, senator McCain, couldn’t motivate as many people to participate in his campaign. Barack Obama was registered on more than a dozen different ...

All new GOP.gov - Keeping up to the pace of openness

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

A while ago the possibilities of Change.gov were discussed on this weblog and right at noon on January 20th the new White House website was launched. Both websites show a spirit of openness and the goal of the new US administration to get citizens more involved into the political process. ...

Write to your elected representative! (2.0)

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Writing letters to elected representatives has always been one of the more effective ways for citizens to state their concern for a political question or to make their opinion clear to “their” member of parliament. This seems perfectly reasonable: If hundreds or even thousands members of the constituency write to ...

The pitfalls of Web2.0 for government Officials

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

As politically interested citizens and active members of the online community I assume we all would like to see our politicians to use as many of the great online communication tools as possible. There is no doubt that Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc. can be great to reach out to certain ...