]]>PEP-NET members been thinking about how to collaborate and organise the conferences they organise. One idea was to jointly present the conferences under a PEP-NET framework. Getting the yearly conferences together was not too difficult, the challenge wa to find a title.
During the month of August, all PEP-NET members were invited to vote on their preferred title [...]
]]>Next Monday and Tuesday, 7th and 8th of September 2009, the University of Economics and Business in Vienna will host the annual Conference on eDemocracy – Edem09.
The Centre for E-Government, Danube-University Krems, will report live from this conference. You can follow our reports on our Blog, on Twitter and on FriendFeed.Twitter - e_society
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]]>The annual Conference on eDemocracy will take place at the Vienna University of Economics and Business on September 7 and 8.
The upcoming conference gives experts and the interested public the opportunity to exchange ideas and opinions about the influence of the web 2.0 on our democracies. There are a number of eDemocracy applications, ranging from [...]
]]>Censorship in China is not new. The Chinese government has mandated to install specific filtering software, Green Dam, on every computer sold in the country. Companies that want to sell computers in China shall pre-install Green Dam which is supposed to protect children from inappropriate internet content. Of course, the software can also be used [...]
]]>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 social media, the main ones [...]
]]>Microsoft recently introduced the Project Natal “ a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun — the only experience needed is life [...]