Pep-Net - Pan European e-Participation Network:
Over the last the last few days, I’ve been wondering how people involved in e-participation approach open source for their software. The rest of this post is taken up with a whole list of questions - it’d be great to hear wh (Read More)
Pep-Net - Pan European e-Participation Network:
Next week at the University of Milano an interesting Conference (”Mettere i governi davanti alle evidenze. Valutazione delle politiche, web 2.0 e competenza dei cittadini”) will focus on the relevance of web 2.0 in the field (Read More)
Pep-Net - Pan European e-Participation Network:
The World eDemocracy Forum is one of the main venues for key international e-Participation players. As founding member of PEP-Net, I would like to make this annual event a promotional event for our network. The election of Ba (Read More)
Pep-Net - Pan European e-Participation Network:
Online petitioning is one of the oldest forms of e-participation around - in Scotland’s case it has been part of the political system for 10 years now. Partly to mark the 10 years of operation, the Scottish Parliament on 1 (Read More)
Pep-Net - Pan European e-Participation Network:
Earlier I have written about the Student Union elections of May 2009 which were Austria’s first use of a legally binding electronic voting system.The E-Voting system required the students to authenticate themselves using a ci (Read More)
Pep-Net - Pan European e-Participation Network:
The Austrian Expatriate World Council was founded in 1952 aiming to coordinate the various existing associations of Austrian citizens living abroad. Its primary function is to represent its members in front of the Austrian fe (Read More)
Pep-Net - Pan European e-Participation Network:
The finding of a new academic report that e-participation has a “surprisingly weak” effect on democratic decision-making, and on helping people to engage with democracy, should not come as too much of a surprise.The report, ‘ (Read More)
Pep-Net - Pan European e-Participation Network:
The European Parliament will proclaim the United States of Europe? EU will grant basic financial security for all its citizens? After so many rejected referenda and strong suspicions against European politics, these ideas sou (Read More)
Pep-Net - Pan European e-Participation Network:
On 17th November the European Commission published the new Work Programme for the ICT theme of the FP7 Specific Programme ‘Cooperation’, defining the priorities for calls for proposals closing in 2009 and 2010 and (Read More)