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E-Democracy » Citizens to be at heart of European policy making
A new report published jointly today by the British, Danish and Dutch governments challenges the way European institutions make decisions and argues that smart EU regulation must mean that businesses and citizens are put at the heart of all European policy-making. “The report, “Smart Regulation: A cleaner, fairer and more competitive EU” addresses this and shows how smart EU regulation … [weiterlesen/Read more]
Intellitics, Inc. » More on Crowdstorming and Crowdsourcing
In what is turning out to be a truly fun excercise, This Week in Participation (our new little internet radio show) has meanwhile cranked out a couple more episodes: TWiP 2: Crowdstorming TWiP 3: Crowdsourcing in Urban Planning Both sessions came in at under 20 minutes each and together make for a nice follow-up to a lot of posts on … [weiterlesen/Read more]
The Great E-mancipator » Varieties of participation
In the EU eGovernment Benchmarking 2010+ report by Alexander Schellong advantage is made of the “democracy cube” developed by Archon Fung, I presume, one of his colleagues at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Fung’s paper, recipient of 81 citations to-date, is entitled “Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance” and is well worth a read in … [weiterlesen/Read more]
The Great E-mancipator » Democratic participation
…or should that be participative democracy? No, the two are definitely not the same! However, so as not to get confused with a post about participation, per se, I thought some expansion necessary! Thanks to Jose Manuel Alonso for mailing the W3C e-government interest group with the European E-participation Summary November 2009. The authors include Ann Macintosh and the document … [weiterlesen/Read more]
Intellitics, Inc. » Open Gov West: March 26-27 in Seattle, WA
Looks like I finally get to attend one of the many events on Gov 2.0 and Open Government: Open Gov West The greater Northwest and Cascadia region is buzzing with innovative technology and civic engagement organizations, and a number of governments throughout the area have already launched open government directives. Hosted by the City of Seattle and Knowledge as Power, … [weiterlesen/Read more]
DavePress » Transformed by you
Simon Wakeman has blogged about the upcoming Transformed by You event in Medway, jointly organised by Medway Council and Kent County Council. It’s a cross between LocalGovCamp and SIcamp, and looks like it will be a really cool day. Not least because of the involvement of Simon and also Kent’s Noel Hatch – two real innovators and thinker-doers in local … [weiterlesen/Read more]
DavePress » SnapGroups
I don’t seem to write much about new tools very often, which is a shame, as playing with stuff is one of my favourite things in the world. Anyway, here’s one I cam across this morning. I was alerted to SnapGroups thanks to ReadWriteWeb. It’s a neat little service that mashes up real time status updates – in other words, … [weiterlesen/Read more]
DavePress » Find what I’m reading
I’m still having a couple of technical problems here getting my delicious bookmarks posted up to the blog. Just in case this is causing you a great deal of anguish – and I completely understand if it isn’t – you can find out what stuff I think is worth reading in two places: there’s my delicious page itself, which also … [weiterlesen/Read more]
DavePress » LocalGovCamp London
Thursday’s LocalGovCamp in London was superbly organised by Anke Holst and her team. I was involved in one session, which was to by about internet culture and whether that’s the interesting thing local government ought to be taking on board, rather than stressing about whether or not they should be using Twitter. Flickr credit: Arun Marsh Rather than just have … [weiterlesen/Read more]
DavePress » Adventures in open source land
I had a load of fun yesterday being a total geek and installing Ubuntu on a netbook I’ve have for a little while and which doesn’t get used an awful lot. It’s a Samsung NC10, which, as I mentioned in this post, is a nice machine for social reporting due to its small size and light weight. Since I got … [weiterlesen/Read more]
DavePress » Bookmarks for March 7th through March 8th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error – … [weiterlesen/Read more]
DavePress » Whoopsie
Apologies if you have been confronted by a nonsensical post full of error messages from this site – something went wrong with my automated bookmark posting thingumy. Anyway, hopefully it won’t happen again. Update: it happened again. Sorry. Possibly related posts: Why Projects Fail: Obstacles and Solutions [weiterlesen/Read more]
The Great E-mancipator » Community work
A report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and the IPPR entitled “Capable Communities – Public service reform: The next chapter” has appeared. It’s another short one at 24 pages and it follows a long list of other reports concerned with co-production, such as the ones I’ve managed to cover here, here and here (and even back in October 2008, too) It doesn’t … [weiterlesen/Read more]
DavePress » The Community Roundtable
I hadn’t come across this before, but the Community Roundtable looks like quite a useful resource. It describes itself as a virtual table where social media and community practitioners gather to meet, discuss challenges, celebrate successes, and hear from experts. …which sounds rather fun. Two things on the site caught my eye this afternoon. First is the community maturity model, … [weiterlesen/Read more]
DavePress » Bookmarks for March 1st through March 5th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Microsoft’s No-Win IE6 Browser Mess – "But who really cares about browser market share other than the vendors and web developers?" For Open Government, Technology Is The Least of Your Problems – "It appears that, between Drupal, ideaScale, cloud computing conversations, a disproportionate part of the discussions around open government … [weiterlesen/Read more]
Digital Democracy » Can your MP use their email once parliament is dissolved?
Once an election is called and Parliament is dissolved our MPs (and their staff) have to contend with some significant changes to the way they can use IT (and other parliamentary services). From the day of dissolution, their status changes and they can longer do many of the things that, since being elected, MPs have taken for granted. Traditionally (and … [weiterlesen/Read more]
The Great E-mancipator » Poor relations?
With the ongoing debate about broadband availability in the UK it comes as a slight surprise that the United States is little different. A recent report in the MIT Technology Review, 16 February 2010, from Associated Press confirms this stating that 40% of US homes lack broadband access. Unsurprisingly, just like the UK, there is an urban versus rural divide. … [weiterlesen/Read more]
Benchmarking e-government in web 2.0 » paradigm shift: we live in an ex-post world
I am very interested in bringing together different research streams on complexity, postmodernity, design thinking, new innovation models and web 2.0. Working on this, but this is all still up in the air.Here I would simply to point to an association of ideas. I see a pattern in many of today’s trends, in that they try to govern complexity by … [weiterlesen/Read more]
DavePress » How to be an everyday innovator
Alongside watching James Graham Gardner’s book on innovation develop online, I was reminded recently about the concept of ‘everyday innovation’ – making innovation something that we all do in our day jobs, rather than something mystical and abstract which is done by pointy-heads in research labs (and alternatively, as more than something as meaninglessly fluffy as a bit of random … [weiterlesen/Read more]
The Great E-mancipator » Digital participation
Following on from the UK’s Digital Britain White Paper is the National Plan for Digital Participation announced today. At 61 pages or 121 paragraphs it’s not a quick read but is fairly condensed and over half of it is annexes. Without delaying for analysis I did a quick search to see if “participation” meant anything to do with “democracy”, having … [weiterlesen/Read more]
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