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Today we want to share with all of you a conversation we had with Thomas Riley, who has been an information and policy expert for the past thirty-five years including being involved in the e-governance and e-government process. Thomas is Executive Director of the Commonwealth Centre for e-Governance. It is a real pleasure for eGovBlog to present this interview.

eGB: Can you tell us about the main projects in which you and CCEG are involved right now? 

TR: Currently we are researching and writing a book on … Continue Reading

Connect, developed by the South Dublin County Council was recently awarded the Best Local Irish eGovernment Award in the Irish eGovernment Awards that took place in February 2007.

The Connect website is designed to bring technology to the community, enable people to use technology in innovative ways, and shape internet content to be more relevant to local interests and needs.

The website launched different initiatives like ‘ConnectWEB’, which offers a free website to community and voluntary groups in the County, so that these groups can have … Continue Reading

eGovBlog had the opportunity to speak with Julie Barko Germany, Deputy Director at the Institute for Politics, Democracy & The Internet (IPDI) about the 14th edition of the Politics Online Conference 2007 that will take place on March 15-16, 2007 in Washington DC. The gathering is a major event in the field of politics and technology, and will bring together top international speakers. We want to thank Julie for her time and enriching comments. Below, the … Continue Reading

In the book Politics Moves Online: Campaigning and the Internet, Michael Cornfield provides a comprehensive guide to how the Internet has been used in political campaigns.Through a series of insightful cases, the author examines how candidates use the Web as a campaign tool and as a fund-raising mechanism, and how voters make use of the Internet to gather information and become more knowledgeable voters.

Professor Cornfield apparently finds that while many … Continue Reading

Downing Street  launched an e-petitions system in November 2006 in partnership with the non-partisan charitable project mySociety. The idea is to provide a service to allow citizens, charities and campaign groups to set up petitions,  enabling anyone to address and deliver a petition directly to the Prime Minister.Those petitions are hosted on the Downing Street website.

The innovative service allows anyone who is a UK citizen to create a petition and to collect signatures via the website. Petitioners are asked to meet basic … Continue Reading

Access2Democracy is a non-profit organization founded in 2004 and established both in Athens and New York.

The assumption behind the initiative is that capabilities of new technologies can be effectively used to the benefit of democracy in our globalized world, by connecting people to decision-making and by offering the means for deliberation and participation. It’s institutional logo is a symbol of this vision, representing the people from the five continents talking face-to-face with each other.

The organization works with governments, NGOs and international bodies to support activities in the field of e-democracy … Continue Reading

The Waseda University Institute of e-Government has recently released its 2007 World E-Government Ranking. The Institute ranked  the development of e-Government in 32 countries from all over the world. The top five countries in the list were: United States, Singapore, Canada, Japan and Korea.

In order to measure e-Government development in those countries, some indicators and parameters were defined and used. Focus of the research was not only on the provision of services to citizen, but also on the effective … Continue Reading