Welcome to the European Citizens' House!
- Wednesday, 16 May 2012
You have more European rights and more ways to claim them than you imagine.
When the EU Institutions take decisions and the 27 Member States apply them, they are bound by a Charter of Fundamental Rights. And, for the first time, Europeans have a right to take transnational democratic initiatives: over one million citizens can demand a new EU law.
There is often though a gap between the fine principles of European law and how it is actually applied on the ground. There is no clear European citizens’ charter of enforceable rights. Communication about the ways to enforce rights is also scattered across different Institutions and departments.
That is why we are bringing everything together in a one-stop shop.
[WeGov Project] Phase 2 Evaluations with the German Bundestag
- Tuesday, 24 April 2012
The WeGov team launched the Phase 2 Evaluation of the second version of the WeGov toolbox in March 2012.
WeGov is a toolset that allows policy-makers to take full advantage to be taken of a wide range of existing and well established social networking sites in order to engage citizens in two-way dialogs as part of the governance and policymaking processes. The toolset contains a number of configurable tools to search, detect, track and mine opinions and discussions on policy oriented topics on a range of social media platforms.social networking sites.
4th event of the LSP Roadshow at the 7th PEPPOL Conference in Rome (May 29-30 2012)
- Tuesday, 24 April 2012
GOV2U is proud to invite everyone to the 4th event of the Large scale Pilots Roadshow which is taking place in the framework of the 7th PEPPOL conference (Rome, May 29-30 2012).
The LSP Roadshow is a stream of events parallel to ongoing dissemination activities of the LSPs and building on specific actions in the e-Government action plan and Digital Agenda. It consists of building blocks coming from the different Large Scale Pilots, presented under one logo and message –"LSP LEGO".
How Will The Internet Influence Democracy?
- Thursday, 19 April 2012
The way we learn to use the Internet in the next few years (or fail to learn) will influence the way our grandchildren govern themselves. Yet only a tiny fraction of the news stories about the impact of the Net focus attention on the ways many to-many communication technology might be changing democracy — and those few stories that are published center on how traditional political parties are using the Web, not on how grassroots movements might be finding a voice.
Democracy is not just about voting for our leaders. Democracy is about citizens who have the information and freedom of communication and the need to govern themselves. Although it would be illogical to say that the printing press created modern democratic nation-states, it would have been impossible to conceive, foment, or implement self-government without the widespread literacy made possible by printing technology. The more we know about the kind of literacy citizens are granted by the Internet, the better our chances of using that literacy to strengthen democracy.
Visualizing the Global Digital Divide By Mapping Internet And Population
- Wednesday, 18 April 2012
With this map, Gregor Aisch tried to visualize the global digital divide. It shows more than 80,000 populated places in blue and about 350,000 locations of IP addresses in red. White dots indicate places where many people live and many IP addresses are available.
Innovative ICT services: Build, Connect, Grow!
- Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Simple effective innovation will facilitate the lives of citizens and businesses in the Union!
Five EU co-funded projects (PEPPOL, SPOCS, STORK, eCODEX, epSOS) will demonstrate how innovative ICT services can contribute to citizen and business mobility and invite industry and business representatives to their booth at the CeBIT conference (6-10 March, Hannover, Germany).
eGovernment should not stop at national borders, and these five projects prove that European cross border eGovernment is achievable, making the lives of citizens and businesses easier, while being more efficient and cost effective than existing public services.
Democracy Pays
- Wednesday, 08 February 2012
White Paper.
We are delighted to be republishing this blog post found on Democratic Society’s official webpage.
The post features the executive summary of a White Paper, written by Anthony Zacharzewski in association with Public-i Ltd., on how democratic engagement can help local government save money in a time of cuts. (PDF/View on Scribd).
We find it very much in line we what we believe, and we’re here to spread the word. This is Open Gov good practices at its finest.
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