UK riots and a new digital divide
Claims that social networking tools were used to co-ordinate the London riots, which have since spread to other cities including my former home town, Birmingham, point to a new digital divide: this...
View ArticleOpen data in the UK: “Open Public Services” White Paper
I just stumbled across the UK Government’s Open Public Services white paper from July, which outlines the Government’s plans for reforming public services to make them more efficient and bring them...
View ArticleAshoka Challenge – Citizen Media: A Global Innovation Competition
Ashoka Foundation, with the support of Google, has launched Citizen Media: A Global Innovation Competition. Well, it was launched more than one month ago, but you still have 19 days (till Sep 14th) to...
View ArticleFrankfurt Social Media Newsroom: Interview with Nikolaus Münster, Head of...
Nikolaus Münster is Head of Press and Public Relations at the City Council in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. I spoke to him about the city’s “Social Media Newsroom“, which gathers content from all of its...
View ArticleBirmingham Civic Dashboard: E-Government to We-Government via Open Data
Birmingham Civic Dashboard screenshot In its recent consultation document ‘Making Open Data Real’, the UK Government expresses high hopes for open data, heralding it as possibly “the most powerful...
View ArticlePresenting the “Matrix of Civic Implication”
The Asociación Ciudades Kyosei is a small civic organization whose aim is to foster Civic Engagement by means of ICT. It was founded in 2006 and is the oldest Spanish NGO devoted to the promotion of...
View ArticleSOPA, PIPA and now ACTA … the acronyms that are mobilizing the EU online...
Europeans who have felt left out in the past few weeks have now got their very own achronym to rally around. Hot on the heels of the successful campaign against SOPA (“Stop Online Piracy Act”) and PIPA...
View ArticleSave the Date: the PEP-NET Summit 2012
Photo by karikas on Flickr.com The PEP-NET Summit 2012 will take place on 14th May 2012 at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. We are looking forward to an interactive event with plenty of space for...
View ArticleAlenka Krek-Poplin at the PEP-NET Summit: Playful Citizen Participation
Alenka Krek-Poplin Having studied Surveying in Ljubljana before specialising in Geographical Information Systems through work and academic study in Austria, the US and Germany, Prof. Alenka Krek-Poplin...
View ArticleeParticipation is finally getting teeth…
This week Avaaz, the “campaigning community bringing people-powered politics to decision-makers worldwide’, started the beta-testing of its community petitions platform, which allows anybody to launch...
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