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E-participation/e-democracy begin with digital inclusion

Dan Jellinek was in Vienna on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday for the EU digital inclusion conference. He says that the conference looked at digital inclusion in a very broad sense. It covered efforts to ensure that socially excluded or disadvantaged groups have access to new technologies such as the internet and mobile phones, looking at multiple factors including poverty; health; disability; education; geography; political exclusion; technophobia; language; usability; and many other factors. But It also covered the importance of ensuring that everyone continues to have access to equal services even when they are digitally excluded.

New international conference on eParticipation and call for contributions, September 2009

2009 will be the first time, ePart, a new International Conference on eParticipation (www.demo-net.org/epart), will take place following the 8th international EGOV conference 2009 (part of the DEXA conference cluster, www.dexa.org). ePart is dedicated to topics on eParticipation and eDemocracy. ePart will take place 3-4 September 2009 in Linz (AT), i.e. right after EGOV conference 30 August to 2 September 2009 with which ePart will be co-located.

Mauritius is Africa’s ICT leader- Deputy Speaker

Ettiene Sinatambou, the deputy speaker of parliament in Mauritius, has hailed his country’s favourable investment regulations as the major driving force behind the success of ICT in that country. Sanatambou spoke to ITNewsAfrica.com during the African ICT Achievers Awards last week in Johannesburg.

New Research Funding on “e-Participation 2.0″ now available

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 the criteria that will be used for evaluating the proposals responding to these calls. A specific objective is entitled “ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling”, aiming to develop governance models, process flows, and analytical tools related to a proper understanding, interpretation, visualisation and harnessing of what we can name “e-Participation 2.0″: the potential of on-line collaborations to trigger and shape significant changes in the functioning of future societies.

Virtual desktop for mobile parliamentarians

Members of parliament and other citizen representatives now have a new tool at their fingertips to help them keep on top of their work while on the move – a virtual desktop providing an integrated approach to remote committee management.

ICT Research:e-Government and e-Participation

This report produced for the publication series ICT Research: The Policy Perspective examines how information and communications technology, or ICT, is revolutionizing the way citizens, businesses and public administrations interact.

My e-Democracy ‘08

A reporting of impressions from Dan Jellinek’s (headstar) e-Democracy conference which took place in London Tuesday this week.

A new Congress, a new approach to technology?

With a supportive administration behind it and some reshuffled leadership, the next Congress may make more progress on tech legislation, for better or for worse.

How Social Software Can Improve Democracy

"Politics breeds cynicism; politicians seem to pander to contradictory focus groups to get elected, then break their promises to everyone. Mass mailings and faxings overwhelm their staffs, and who knows if you can tell your representatives what you really think? Experienced techie and political consultant Silona Bonewald (creator of the Transparent Federal Budget) believes that simple software solutions can fix these problems and more. O'Reilly News recently discussed with her how social software can improve democracy and leadership."
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