The Latest News from eGov Blog
- Now ?Categories? on eGovBlog
- Paper: ?The Democratisation of Diplomacy: Negotiating with the Internet?
- YouChoose, a new feature from YouTube to link candidates with voters
- The 9th EPRI Conference on ICT, 19-20 March in Lisbon
- Interview with Thomas Riley, Executive Director of the Commonwealth Centre for e-Governance
- Connect, awarded at the Irish eGovernment Awards
- Interview with Julie Barko, Deputy Director at IPDI, about ?Politics Online Conference 2007?
- Book: ?Politics Moves Online: Campaigning and the Internet?
- e-Petitions at Downing Street
- Access2Democracy, principles and practice of participatory e-democracy
In order to make eGovBlog more friendly for our readers, we have just split up the content into categories. The ones we decided to include in this first stage are: ‘Events & Programs’; ‘Interviews’; ‘Projects’; ‘Publications’; ‘Trends & Technologies’ and ‘eGovBlog’. The categories we chose intend to cover in a comprehensive way the different topics that [...]
In this paper which is not very recent, Richard Grant makes a solid attempt to explain how the Internet, digital imagery and other Information and Communication Technologies are changing the environment in which diplomacy operates. According to the author, three main factors have driven this transformation: ’speed of application’, ‘increasing capacity’, and ’shrinking costs’. The Internet [...]
YouTube, the famous video sharing website, has recently launched a new section called YouChoose’08 where voters and anyone else interested in politics can find videos from candidates. Videos from people like Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, Rudy Giuliani, John Edwards or John McCain can be found, all together. Viewers are encouraged to connect with the candidates, [...]
Hosted by the Portuguese Parliament, and set to take place on 19-20 March 2007 in Lisbon, the EPRI Conference will concentrate on Information & Communication Technologies and its role in the democratic decision making process. The focus will be on three themes: Perception of parliamentary web- based contents by the 21st century citizens; the use of [...]
Today we want to share with all of you a conversation we had with Thomas Riley, who has been an information and policy expert for the past thirty-five years including being involved in the e-governance and e-government process. Thomas is Executive Director of the Commonwealth Centre for e-Governance. It is a real pleasure for eGovBlog [...]
Connect, developed by the South Dublin County Council was recently awarded the Best Local Irish eGovernment Award in the Irish eGovernment Awards that took place in February 2007. The Connect website is designed to bring technology to the community, enable people to use technology in innovative ways, and shape internet content to be more relevant to [...]
eGovBlog had the opportunity to speak with Julie Barko Germany, Deputy Director at the Institute for Politics, Democracy & The Internet (IPDI) about the 14th edition of the Politics Online Conference 2007 that will take place on March 15-16, 2007 in Washington DC. The gathering is a major event in the field of politics and [...]
In the book Politics Moves Online: Campaigning and the Internet, Michael Cornfield provides a comprehensive guide to how the Internet has been used in political campaigns.Through a series of insightful cases, the author examines how candidates use the Web as a campaign tool and as a fund-raising mechanism, and how voters make use of the [...]
Downing Street launched an e-petitions system in November 2006 in partnership with the non-partisan charitable project mySociety. The idea is to provide a service to allow citizens, charities and campaign groups to set up petitions, enabling anyone to address and deliver a petition directly to the Prime Minister.Those petitions are hosted on the Downing Street [...]
Access2Democracy is a non-profit organization founded in 2004 and established both in Athens and New York. The assumption behind the initiative is that capabilities of new technologies can be effectively used to the benefit of democracy in our globalized world, by connecting people to decision-making and by offering the means for deliberation and participation. It’s institutional [...]