European-wide discussion on the harmful effects of smoking
A European-wide discussion on the harmful effects of smoking between citizens and members of regional and national parliaments through the creation of an online platform is the objective of Demos@Work project. The project, which is co-financed under the 2007 eParticipation call, was launched in January. The first pilots will take place in Catalonia and Lithuania in cooperation with the relevant parliaments.
For more information please contact Evika Karamagioli at evika{at}gov2u.org or visit www.demosatwork.org
We would also to invite you to narrate your story in a few words regarding smoking in the story telling section of our site! …
An online services portal for youngsters in Hong Kong
The website provides services to young people aged between 15 and 24 years old, and is ‘contributed to by about 40 Hong Kong Government departments and bureaus and more than 140 related organisations’.
You can visit the portal here.
The ‘Mariachis’ support Barack Obama
We posted about the endorsement received by Hillary Clinton. In this case is Barack Obama who gets the attention.
Interesting to see how YouTube and other similar services are gaining more and more space as valuable marketing tools among constituents, supporters and campaign teams.
The Joker endorses Hillary Clinton
Action in the US Democratic primaries continues. In this case, Hillary Clinton receives a very special endorsement
The road to e-democracy
This is an interesting article recently appeared in The Economist print edition, about the development of e-Democracy.
Politics Online Conference 2008, in Washington
The gathering, organized by the Institute for Politics Democracy & The Internet (IPDI), will take place on March 4 & 5 at the Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel.
Some of the featured speakers for this edition include Phil Noble, Founder of PoliticsOnline; Michael Palmer, eCampaign Director, John McCain for President; Colin Delany, Founder of epolitics.com; and Andrew Rasiej, Founder, Personal Democracy Forum among several others.
Sessions of the event are certainly very interesting, and some of topics are: ‘Social Networking/Media Strategies for the Presidential Campaigns’; “The Long Tail: How the Niche is Revolutionizing Politics’; ‘Best Practices for Political Advertising Online’; and ‘How web video changes the political conversation’.
It appears to be that Politics 2.0 is closer than what we can imagine.
Learn more about the event here
Towards e-Government 2.0
This is a column written by Nicolas Perrotta Bengolea, co-founder of eGovBlog, for the International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG) in 2007.
YouTube and RTVE link Spanish candidates with voters
It is now time for the Spanish politicians to join the YouTube revolution.Together with the Radio y Television Española (RTVE), they have launched an interesting initiative called Elecciones Generales ‘08.
Voters are invited to interview the politicians. Until February 28th people can upload videos with their questions. Politicians will then answer them through RTVE and YouTube. Viewers also have the chance to vote for other people videos.
UN e-Government Survey 2008
Today we present this survey, sponsored by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations.
We will post additional detailed reviews of this work in the weeks ahead.
Excellence in eGovernment Award 2008, in Australia
This is an award which was first introduced in 2006 by the Australian Government to ‘promote excellence in the use of ICT in Australia at all levels of government’.
The Award recognises those e-government inititaives that have been implemented during the previous two years with an oustanding result.
The criteria to decide which initiatives deserve the honour to be selected is based on the ‘positive impact they have had on the lives of citizens, the community, and business, while improving government administration and service delivery.
Nominations close on March 30th, 2008 and the winners will be presented on May 21th at the ICT Celebration Dinner at CeBIT Australia.
If you want to nominate a project, you can do it by completing this form.