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7th European Conference on e-Government (ECEG 2007)

The Conference will bring together researchers, practitioners and academics to present their research findings, work in progress and conceptual advances in any area of e-Government.

Preliminary programme includes among several others topics like, Architecture for knowledge capture in government planning and decision systems; eVote diffusion in small communities; the transition to e-government for local governments; or the case of Irish Parties in Cyberspace including an analysis of political parties’, websites and online campaigning in the context of 2007 general elections.

The gathering will be held at The Hague University of Professional Education in The … Continue Reading

Eventful Politics, a space for grassroots political events

eventful logoEventful Politics is an extremely creative space for citizens to discover, share and create grassroots political events.

The project, which is part of Eventful.com, brings together several useful and funny features for constituents to play and explore with.

With Eventful Politics you can browse groups and upcoming political events all across the United States, no matter if those are Republican or Democrat ones. You can also add new political events and start new groups.

Or you can use Eventful Demand, a … Continue Reading

eGov INDIA 2007 Conference

eindida logoThe Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) is organising eGov INDIA 2007 Conference from July 31 to August 3.

eGov INDIA 2007 intends to asses the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) implementation. The NeGP envisages creation of right environments to implement G2G, G2B, and G2C services.

The gathering looks to provide an effective platform for knowledge-sharing and interaction, and hopes to bring together Heads of e-Government initiatives, Public Administrators, ICT Services Directors and Information Systems Managers, among … Continue Reading

Internet keeps gaining space among voters

Some interesting conclusions emerge from a recent study conducted by Burst Media with 2,100 online users who are likely to vote in the 2008 Presidential election.

Among other things the survey found that one-quarter of these likely voters chose the Internet as the best source to learn about candidates positions or to research election issues.

Also, more than one out of five said they had visited a 2008 presidential candidate’s website, with men relatively more likely than women to do so.

Finally, more than half (50.7%) of … Continue Reading