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Privacy and Surveillance are the Elephant in the Room at OGP Summit
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(Matching tags: Privacy,Open Government,Transparency)
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Privacy, surveillance and the closing of political space for openness and transparency activists in many countries was the hot issue at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit in London that was left ...
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Created on 11 November 2013
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Urban planning with citizen participation
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(Matching tags: Transparency,Government,European Union,web mapping,citizen participation,urban planning)
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Sweden reinvents urban planning with citizen participation using 3D and Facebook
Gothenburg, the second largest city in Sweden, launches a unique 3D web service engaging citizens to contribute with ideas ...
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Created on 14 January 2013
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Euro MPs: Do not let the ITU take control of the internet
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(Matching tags: GNU,Government,open source,Society,GPL,Change)
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As the ITU gears up to push for powers to regulate the internet, the European Parliament votes to oppose the move, saying it would harm the flow of information online and stifle innovation. Ben Woods writes ...
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Created on 26 November 2012
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The Changing Role of Government
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(Matching tags: service,services,communications,Government,citizen,responsiveness)
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(r)Evolution.
The role of government has evolved over time as citizen needs have changed. In Governing’s November 2011 edition (p 20), there was an article entitled “Full-Service ...
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Created on 12 January 2012
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Opening up Europe's public data
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(Matching tags: Neelie Kroes,Government,Transparency,European Union,Open Data)
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A Goldmine
The Commission just launched an Open Data Strategy for Europe, which is expected to deliver a €40 billion boost to the EU's economy each year. Europe’s public administrations ...
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Created on 13 December 2011
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How the open movement will change everything
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(Matching tags: Society,GPL,open source,GNU,Change,Government)
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Consider this: in just a few short years, the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia has made closed-source encyclopedias obsolete — both the hard-bound kind and the CD-ROM or commercial online kind. Goodbye ...
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Created on 12 September 2011