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Now Latvian citizens can declare their place of residence simply by sending an e-mail. The service, active as from January 1st, is only available to those citizens using eSignature.

In order to try this new feature, the person must send in an electronically signed declaration form. The Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA) confirms then that it has received the e-mail, enters the information into the Population Register and sends the declaration with the signature to the local authority.

Vilnis JÄ“kabsons, Head of the OCMA, stressed that the procedure … Continue Reading

e-Petitioner is a very interesting initiative from the Scottish Parliament the allows citizens to have their public petitions live on the Internet, rather than simply on paper. Petitions and other complementary information can then be made available to a potentially much wider audience, giving the piece the opportunity to get more support from other people.

A petition may gather signatures in both online and paper forms, and each of them has its own discussion forum, where visitors and signatories can discuss the … Continue Reading

With an expected audience coming from Government institutions, IT companies and consultants working in eGovernment services and eGovernment users, The European W3C Symposium on eGovernment is set to take place in Gijon, Spain on February 1 & 2, 2007.

The declared aim of the gathering is to understand specific government and citizens needs related to eGovernment services, identify aspects that put Web interoperability at risk and find how governments can deliver better and more efficient services through computer technologies…. Continue Reading

Conducted by Andy Williamson, a leading community researcher in New Zealand involved with Information Technology for several years, the aim of this research is to examine the impact of using ICT to facilitate and influence the democratic process in a regional community in New Zealand, namely Waitakere City.

The project is attempting first to identify how those active in local democracy are using ICTs to engage, communicate, connect and publish. In a second phase the goal is to develop a model that describes … Continue Reading

Edited by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko from the University of Tampere, and Matti Malkia from the Police College of Finland, the three volume Encyclopedia of Digital Government provides a comprehensive coverage of concepts, trends, and technologies of digital governance.

Among other key features, it includes contributions from more than 300 international leading experts, and over 5,500 references on existing literature and research on the field.

Topics range from e-Administration to e-Politics, and from emerging trends to social issues.

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eRepublic.org contains an eGovernment comprehensive directory of national government websites and web portals from across the globe, listings of eGov tools, and other resources listings providing eGov news, blogs and reports.

Mission of the project is to work toward having a world where much more of its population is provided today’s technological opportunities to participate in governmental functioning and decision making.

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Created by a diverse and really impressive team of people from different disciplines, like politics, high-tech and journalism, Hotsoup.com is in the process of building an online community for the millions of influencers who want a say in how to improve America.

Harnessing the power of social networking, community members discuss and debate about a broad scope of relevant topics ranging from politics to business, and from religion to media.

Among other complementary features, Hotsoup offers to its users ‘Hot Issues’, … Continue Reading

There is a need to better understand current eParticipation applications and learn from these experiences. In this paper, Ann Macintosh and Angus White describe methods and results from the evaluation of eParticipation projects conducted under the UK Local e-Democracy National Project.

The authors argue that eParticipation evaluation is still in its infancy and that there is a need to develop a coherent evaluation framework, encompassing a range of methods and perspectives.

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Gov2u is a non-governmental organization founded in 2005 with the aim of assisting parliaments become efficient and transparent institutions.

To achieve this ambitious goal, Gov2u has created an open source, customizable, informative and collaborative e-participation platform, named Gov2DemOSS.

The aim of this platform is to provide an efficient and transparent channel for institutions to keep their communities informed, manage their information repositories, gauge public opinion, interact directly with their communities and to involve them in the decision making process.

Gov2DemOSS has been already implemented in … Continue Reading

An inititative under the Community Public Health Programme 2003-2008, the Health-EU portal, was launched in 2006 as a contribution to human wellbeing.

The main objective of this thematic Portal is to provide European citizens with easy access to comprehensive information on Public Health initiatives and programmes at EU level. It also intends to allow greater involvement of individuals, institutions, associations, organisations and bodies in the health sector by facilitating consultation and participation.

Access to the information needed is possible via a simple theme structure which presents health-related aspects … Continue Reading