Dear all, This is to inform you that the deadline for submissions to the symposium 'Networking Democracy? New Media Innovations in Participatory Politics' has been extended to 11 January 2010. Please see our Call for Papers below for further details. Apologies for cross-posting. Best regards,
Dear Colleagues, due to server problems, the on-line video streaming is going to be broadcasted on alternative web site http://www.inepa.si/vep.html Thank you for your understanding. Best regards, Simon From: Simon Delakorda (INePA) Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 10:24 AM To: Simon Delakorda (INePA) Cc: Simon Delakorda (Arnes) Subject: Invitation to watch e-participation MSc thesis defence on-line Dear colleagues, you are kindly invited to watch MSc thesis defence tomorrow, 2nd of December, starting at 9.00 a.m. (CET) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. Thesis title is Electronic Participation as political relationship: the case of the European Commission's Interactive policy making. Live on-line video streaming of the event will be available at http://www.studio12.tv. The event will be broadcasted in Slovene language. Materials relating to MSc thesis will be available on the web page. More information is available on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=360883875400&ref=mf. You are also kindly invited to follow my future work within the Institute for Electronic Participation on Twitter http://twitter.com/simondelakorda. Feel free to forward this invitation to your colleagues. With kind regards, Simon Delakorda, MSc candidate
Dear colleagues, you are kindly invited to watch MSc thesis defence tomorrow, 2nd of December, starting at 9.00 a.m. (CET) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. Thesis title is Electronic Participation as political relationship: the case of the European Commission's Interactive policy making. Live on-line video streaming of the event will be available at http://www.studio12.tv. The event will be broadcasted in Slovene language. Materials relating to MSc thesis will be available on the web page. More information is available on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=360883875400&ref=mf. You are also kindly invited to follow my future work within the Institute for Electronic Participation on Twitter http://twitter.com/simondelakorda. Feel free to forward this invitation to your colleagues. With kind regards, Simon Delakorda, MSc candidate
Dear all, Please see call for papers below. Apologies for cross-postings. Best regards,
The EU Treaties are supposedly progressing towards further integration, but does it happen in every sector? Citizens across Europe are becoming much more demanding with the EU asking them to end a sort of project where a political elite decides which sector is going to be part of single market and which sector is not going to be depending on their own needs. Ordinary people now also want to have a say! If you take the Single Market for too long the EU has been hypocritical about which sector is included within the Single Market and which sector is not; take, for instance, agriculture, public services, gambling, amongst other sectors. Several stakeholders throughout Europe are mobilising to ask the EU institutions to change that. If integration is to take place, it should take place in every sector and not only in those sectos that suit most national governments.
Hi From William Heath at Idealgovernment.com European Democracy Online Exchange members are all invited to Europe's first-ever popular e-government event: Malmo09, 19/20 Nov 2009. This spontaneous local response to the fifth official EU e-gov event is yet to be created by its participants. It promises: - no presentation longer than six minutes - focus on transparency, data mashups and pertinent art - an exemplary Swedish chef To join in visit Malmo09.org or email <email obscured><email obscured>> Via Ella Ella Taylor-Smith International Teledemocracy Centre Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Telephone: +44 (0) 131 455 2392 Email: <email obscured><email obscured>> http://itc.napier.ac.uk http://huwy.eu<http://www.huwy.eu/>
Please find enclosed the CfP for the 4th International Conference on eDemocracy. Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please disseminate this CFP to any relevant lists and among your colleagues and students. We would also like to invite you (or anyone from your research group / organisation) to contribute papers to this conference. Thanks in advance. ***************************************************************************************************************************** EDem10 4th International Conference on eDemocracy 6 and 7 May 2010 Danube University Krems Austria www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem *A revolution doesn*t happen when a society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviours* (Clay Shirky) Call for Papers It is only now, during the first decade of the 21st Century, that those scientific eDemocracy visions developed in both in the 60s and the 90s are becoming reality and implemented. Surprisingly, it is not the IT developments in IT alone that are responsible for successful eDemocracy projects - it is all those members of society who use them, as they adopt new behaviours. The new, digital generation lives and breathes new values: they collaborate, compile content together, share their ideas, create networks on social platforms and organise themselves quickly and simply. The new values held, the new behaviours, the changed mindset, with improved usability and a usage of the internet which still continues, has led to a rapid and radical change in our society. The EDem10 focuses on these changes which can be seen occurring in different areas and which are manifest in different way: * Transparency & Communication (freedom of information, free information access, openness, information sharing, blogging, micro-blogging, social networks, data visualization, eLearning, empowering, *) * Participation & Collaboration (innovation malls, innovation communities, bottom up, top down, social networks, engagement and accountability, collaborative culture, collaboration between C2C, G2C, *) * Architecture, Concepts & Effects (access and openness, user generated content, peer production, network effects, power laws, long tail, harnessing the power of the crowd, crowd sourcing, social web, semantic web, *) * Different Fields: open government initiatives, eDemocracy, eParticipation, eVoting, * Different Disciplines: law, social science, computer science, political science, psychology, sociology * Research Methods On primary aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners. We would like to invite individuals from academic, applied and practitioner backgrounds as well as public administration offices, public bodies, NGO/NPOs, education institutions and independent organisations to submit their contributions into one of the 6 categories: 1. finished research 2. ongoing research 3. finished projects 4. ongoing projects 5. workshops 6. PhD colloquium submission. Confirmed Speakers: Micah Sifry Co-founder and editor of the Personal Democracy Forum; editor of TechPresident; Sunlight Foundation Consultant (USA) www.personaldemocracy.com Andy Williamson Director eDemocracy Programme at the Hansard Society London (U.K.) http://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/ Ismael Peña-López Lecturer and researcher, School of Law and Political Science Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain) http://ictlogy.net/ Workshops by: Pan European eParticipation Network Committee on E-Democracy of the Council of Europe (CAHDE) The conference language is English; submissions in German (with an abstract in English) are also acceptable. Fees: EUR 105,- for authors and PEP-NET Members EUR 125,- early bird rate for participants who register until 28.02.2010 EUR 145,- for participants who register after 28.02.2010 The fee includes conference, proceedings and social program during the conference. A pre-conference social program will be announced later. The Proceedings will be published by the Austrian Computer Society. The EDEM conference series is jointly organised by the Danube University Krems and the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna. Deadlines: Submission of papers (max. 10 pages): 21.12.2009 Notification of acceptance: 31.01.2010 Final paper submission: 28.02.2010 Conference: 6-7 May 2010 Submissions: Please send your submission in pdf format to <email obscured> or <email obscured> . Submission via a Web page will be made available soon. All submissions will be submitted to a double-blind full paper review by at least 2 reviewers. To facilitate the review process, please write a separate cover sheet with the paper title and affiliation/s and omit the affiliations in the actual paper. Format and Further Information: www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem Programme Committee: Ah Lian Kor (Leeds Metropolitan University, U.K.) Andy Williamson (Hansard Society, U.K.) Asim Balxi (Selcuk University, Turkey) Bozidar Klicek (Faculty of Organisation and Informatics, University of Zagreb, Croatia) Carl-Markus Piswanger (Austrian Federal Computing Centre, A) Christian Rupp (Austrian Federal Chancellery, Austria) Chuch Hirt (CEE CN, Slovakia) Cornelia Wallner (SORA, Austria) Dan Jellinek (Headstar.com, U.K.) Daniel van Lerberghe (Politech Institute, Belgium) Ella Taylor-Smith (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) Noella Edelmann (Danube-University Krems, Austria) Erich Schweighofer (Institut für Europarecht, Internationales Recht und Rechtsvergleichung, University of Vienna, Austria) Bengt Feil (TuTech Innovation GmbH, Germany) Flooh Perlot (Institut für Strategieanalysen, Austria) Frank Wilson (Interaction Design Ltd., U.K.) Graham Orange (Leeds Metropolitan University, U.K.) Georg Aichholzer (Institute of Technology Assessment, Austria) Günther Schebeck (Austrian Parliament) Hans Hagedorn (Zebralog, Austria) Helle Zinner-Henriksen (Center for Applied ICT, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) Jeremy Millard (Danish Technological Institute, Denmark) Josef Makolm (Ministry of Finance, Austria) Julia Glidden (21c Consultancy Ltd., U.K.) Lasse Berntzen (Vestfold University, Norway) Rolf Luehrs (TuTech Innovation GmbH, Germany) Francesco Molinari (IDEAL-EU, Italy) Peter Mambrey (Fraunhofer-FIT Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik, Germany) Matjaz Gams (Jožef Stefan Institute, SLO) Matt Poelmans (Burgerlink, Netherlands) Melanie Volkamer (CASED, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) Peter Cruickshank (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) Peter Mambrey (Fraunhofer-FIT Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik, Germany) Peter Reichstädter (Austrian Federal Chancellery, Austria) Ralf Lindner (Fraunhofer ISI, Germay) Robert Müller-Török (INTECO, Germany) Rudolf Legat (Austrian Environmental Agency, Austria) Sylvia Archmann (Federal Chancellery, Austria) Thomas Buchsbaum (Austrian Foreign Ministry, Council of Europe/CAHDE, Austria) Thomas F. Gordon (Fraunhoger FOKUS, Germany) Tom van Engers (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Ursula Maier-Rabler (University of Salzburg, Austria) Valerie Frissen (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Yannis Charalabidis (National Technical University of Athens - eGovenment and Business Research, Greece) I look forward to seeing you! Noella Noella Edelmann BA, MSc, MAS Researcher EDem10 Conference www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government www.jedem.org Digital Government Blog http://digitalgovernment.wordpress.com/ Centre for E-Government Danube University Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30 3500 Krems Austria Tel.: ++43 2732 893 2303 www.donau-uni.ac.at/egov <email obscured>
Now that we've consolidated the two-way discussions on DoWire.org
primarily into the new exchange@ online group, I also plan to
consolidate my announcements on my main Newswire.
So, if you want announcement like the one below in the future, please
join my moderated one-way Newswire announcement list by sending an
e-mail to:
<email obscured>
In the subject, write:
subscribe
Europe@ may still be used for discussion if for some reason you want
to focus the audience mostly on people in/interested in e-democracy in
Europe. However, 99% of you are also on the Exchange@ and gain the
value in mixing it up with around 700 people interested in e-democracy
from scores more countries.
From: Steven Clift <email obscured>>
Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Subject: Collaboratively Write the European E-Government Declaration
To: <email obscured>
From:
http://mixedink.com/Eups20/Manifesto
Help European Governments embrace Web 2.0!
On November 19-20, 2009, the EU ministerial conference will define the
main priorities of e-government in the next three years.
Help craft a collective, open declaration that will push governments
to embrace the web culture of openness and collaboration in designing
future public services. By working together and tapping the collective
wisdom of a large group, our declaration will carry a lot of weight.
We will present the top-rated, collaboratively written version at the
ministerial in Malmö and then encourage ministers to act in accordance
with it.
In this website, YOU CAN HELP WRITE THE DECLARATION by RATING the
existing version, REMIXING different versions to form new ones, and
PROPOSING you own version of the declaration.
If you modify an existing version, please indicate the main changes
you have made either in the title of your version or in a comment on
it. tks.
For background information on this initiative see http://eups20.wordpress.com
Rate
Write & Remix
Top Version
Help the community choose the best Declaration on Public Services 2.0
by rating different versions on a 5-star scale.Borrow and remix other
people's words to make a new Declaration on Public Services 2.0, or
create your own version from scratch.At the end, the top-rated
Declaration on Public Services 2.0 will express what the community
thinks, so add your voice and get heard!
Countdown: 1 week, 3 days
Hi all, Just to give a push to this, what Richard and Julian did with the Straight Choice is an important step forward in the edemocracy sphere, because they came up with a genuinely new model for a website - it isn't a TheyWorkForYou clone, or a voting quiz or any of these proven models, it's a genuinely new beast. I heartily encourage you all to take a look. best, Tom 2009/8/21 Richard Pope <email obscured>>:
Excellent! It should only take a day or so to set up, you just need a linux server with enough room to store the images. Give me a shout if you need a hand with anything. Richard On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Peter
Hi Richard yes we are interested. we also started the austrian version of ask your mp: http://www.meinparlament.at/ BR peter
Does anybody know of a programmer / organisation in Germany who might be interested in taking the code from http://TheStraightChoice.org and setting up a German version in time for next months elections? The code is up here: code.google.com/p/theelectionleafletproject/
OK, thank you for your feedback. Hearing no one opposed, going once, going twice, ... I''ll create a consolidated member list from everyone on the consult@ code@ us@ ukie@ research@ europe@ groups and combine them with the sub-groups we never opened for discussion. Then we will have one big giant opt-out call for the mega-group before the Exchange@ opens. That's where you can vote with your feet so to speak. Cheers, Steven Clift P.S. Digest mode or the full text web feed will definitely be something for those who want to move beyond separate e-mails. More later.
On 8/14/2009 8:41 AM, Steven Clift wrote: > The other week a round of introductions on the research@ forum at > DoWire.Org brought out a number of very interesting practitioners who > had joined that forum. Combine this with the fact that the e-democracy > world has moved beyond "Consultation" which represented the roots of > the consult@ group and the huge diffusion of online > groups/blogs/twitter hash tags/Facebook groups etc. outside DoWire and > we have a real challenge... > > Too many online spaces diffusing attention such that it is difficult > to host a critical mass international discussion on e-democracy > ANYWHERE. > > I still find the more democratic two-way nature of e-lists/forums to > be far superior for exchange than more elite expert blogs (where the > topics are chosen typically by one person and only those who have the > time to maintain blogs have contributions which are easy to access) > and most groups/sub-groups on social networking sites are not much > more than a nice collection of people's pictures in our niche. > > So here is my proposal: >. . . .text deleted... On the whole, I would support the proposals.
The other week a round of introductions on the research@ forum at DoWire.Org brought out a number of very interesting practitioners who had joined that forum. Combine this with the fact that the e-democracy world has moved beyond "Consultation" which represented the roots of the consult@ group and the huge diffusion of online groups/blogs/twitter hash tags/Facebook groups etc. outside DoWire and we have a real challenge... Too many online spaces diffusing attention such that it is difficult to host a critical mass international discussion on e-democracy ANYWHERE. I still find the more democratic two-way nature of e-lists/forums to be far superior for exchange than more elite expert blogs (where the topics are chosen typically by one person and only those who have the time to maintain blogs have contributions which are easy to access) and most groups/sub-groups on social networking sites are not much more than a nice collection of people's pictures in our niche. So here is my proposal: 1. Open a catch-all simple *international* <email obscured> forum. Definitely merge the existing consult@ and code@ groups there. Close consult@ and code@ to new postings. This will be *the* place for exchange on an international level on e-democracy and related topics. 2. Give existing members on the proposed online groups that I *never opened* a chance to opt-out of joining the merged super discussion group. 3. Ask existing members on ukie@ europe@ and us@ if they object to being moved over while at the same time keeping there existing groups for at least a year to see if they remain useful. I've done opt-out moves before and rarely get more than a few "not me" please requests ... as long as I am clear about what is happening. If folks object, I'll leave that group out. 4. Use exchange@ as a place to extend remarks from the very useful link exchanging we see on Twitter. Declare #edem the official Twitter hashtag of the e-democracy world (inclusive of those involved with e-participation, e-transparency, e-advocacy, e-campaigning, etc.) and post new topic alerts from the exchange@ into Twitter (now working with New-Online - http://twitter.com/newsonlineposts ) tagged #edem. Figure out a way to post a daily digest of #edem Twitter posts to exchange@ creating a historical archive and access to non-Twitter users. 5. Recruit new members to the exchange@ from the many relatively dead post-Barcamp e-mail lists across the Net and reduce my own cross-posting on those forums to save many of you from multiple postings. 6. Encourage e-democracy related blog, newsletters, social nets, etc. to display discussion feed to their sites. 7. So DoWire would promote the following core exchange options: A. Newswire - Moderated announcements w/2500 members B. Exchange - International knowledge exchange on e-democracy w/1000? members C. Research - Focused research exchange w/400 members E. News-Online - Special group about online news and journalism - w/300 members D. Consider relaunching the DoWire Feeds aggregator to highlight the best blog, twitter tags, etc. resources in this space. Baseline to update from: http://politicalbs.com/DoWireFeeds/ So any feedback, comments? Send them to: <email obscured> Cheers, Steven Clift
If you'd like to mix it up *right now* and through the week with
others interested in e-participation, send your Skype handle to:
<email obscured>
In the SUBJECT simply write: Skype
More info: http://mudball.net/pcamp09/
Links at: http://www.headshift.com/blog/2009/06/what-should-eu-governments-do.php by Lee Bryant This is a Headshift blog post by Lee Bryant, written on June 15, 2009 in Public and Third Sector . What should EU governments do with the web to transform public services? In November 2009, the EU Ministerial declaration on e-government will be published at the Malmo conference. Whilst this formal process is important, governments are not yet absorbing the lessons of the social web or realising its potential to transform public services in a period of scarce resources. In the UK, I think it is especially urgent to demonstrate that we can move beyond simplistic debates about more or less investment in public services and instead find innovative ways to harness people power to deliver better services. To encourage EU governments to act more quickly on this front, following on from our Public Services 2.0 workshop in Brussels, we have joined with other partners to launch (what we hope will become) a co-created declaration on public services to sit alongside the ministerial declaration. Please add your ideas or vote for others here. We will aim for a first draft by August, to be openly reviewed and commented in September and October in time to collect public endorsement and then present it at the Ministerial Conference. See here for more information.
U@MARENOSTRUM is a project co-financed under the 2008 e-Participation call <http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/index_en.htm>
Hans wrote: > > Anyway, I don't see much difference between intransparent alliance > forming between parties vs. within parties. > > > I completely agree with Hans. If you want to ban the former, logic says you must also ban the former, which seems pretty unworkable. An anecdote from Slovakia might illustrate my point: prior to the 1998 elections a law was passed by the Mer government barring pre-election coalitions from standing, evidently designed to prevent a four-party opposition coaltion from capitalising on its lead in the opinion polls. Fortunately the ruse didn't work because they were clever enough to register the coalition as a 'party', whilst retaining a kind of federal internal party structure. Funnily enough, the coalition did not break up into its original component parts after the election (following the revision of the electoral law) as you might have predicted, although there were splinters. Anyhow, my point is that in many countries, especially newer democracies (where lack of transparency is, of course, a particular concern) the party system is extremely malleable, so to think of parties as the basic, unchanging units of politics, and base your pro-transparency measures on that assumption, is a bit naive. Simon Smith, Research Associate, Centre for Digital Citizenship, Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/staff/s.smith
In reply to Tom That's understandable, in those particular circumstances. But surely that is VERY different from members of two (or more) political parties having discussions about the possibility of forming a coalition? Exploratory contacts might well start at a "low level" before involving formal party leaders or elected politicians. Indeed, the initiative might come from the grass-roots, as a result of informal, local discussions among some like-minded members of the two parties. Snooping on all such discussions to make sure "the forbidden does not happen" would produce a very different kind of society. And to comment on Anthony's post (so that I don't again exceed my posting quota!) The between-party negotiations in Scotland all took place outwith the Parliament so none of the parliamentary considerations (privilege, standing orders) would be relevant. As mentioned before, the process in 2003 was very different from that in 1998, especially with regard to the involvement of the wider LibDem party, though neither involved the electorate. The Governments published assessment of ttheir achievements against the various targets set in the Partnership Agreement. Also as I said before, it would perhaps be best to get the options out in the public domain before the election so that it can become an election issue, decided by the voters. But that doesn't mean there will be open discussion or public participation in the discussions, nor that discussion behind closed doors should be prohibited by law.