Archives for January 2008
Test your political preferences, with VoteMatch USA 2008
Based on a number of statements from the major Republican and Democratic candidates addressing several election topics like, taxes, abortion or the war in Iraq, VoteMatch helps you determine who is the candidate you agree with most.
Participants have to answer the statements, by clicking on ‘agree’, ‘disagree’ or ‘don’t know’. You can then add […]
Sergey Brin about voting, in Davos
The co-founder of Google answers in this one minute video a question about voting and what they could do to improve it.
You can hear his views here.
Google Checkout, a political fundraising tool
Google, the internet giant, is now trying to expand its domains to the political arena.
It has recently launched Google Checkout for Political Contributions as a tool to start accepting political contributions from supporters and increase online giving to campaigns by charging credit or debit cards.
Google Checkout enables candidates to raise funds through YouTube You Choose […]
Techcrunch, or TechPolitics
If you are one of those who follow in someway the web 2.0 phenomenon, then you have heard about Techcrunch, one of the top weblogs dedicated to profiling new Internet products and companies in the Valley.
Being an icon of the web 2.0, it is very interesting the fact that they have decided to put an […]
Citizen Empowerment Symposium 08
The event, Empowering Citizens through Technology and Participation, will take place on 28th and 29th 2008 in the Congress Centre in London.
Key partners for the Synmposium include the International Centre for Local eDemocracy (ICELE), United Nations (UN) and the Council of Europe (CoE).
The sessions scheduled for the event comprise:’Getting Together Online’, ‘Community Empowerment using Technology’, […]
Ron Paul, web 2.0 presidential candidate
We are yet in the very early stages of internet politics development. But there are already some pioneers who are very actively experimenting with the potential of the web 2.0 to interact with voters.
Ron Paul, the Republican US presidential candidate, is a major example of this new trend. He has been targeting a comprehensive blend […]
A Handbook for Citizen-centric eGovernment
We present today a very interesting work on citizen centric e-Government. The project represents the cumlination of a 18 month research to identify what works and what doesn’t across Europe in this field.
The initiative was commissioned to ECOTEC Research & Consulting and the Tavistock Institute by the by the e-Government unit, DG Information Society and […]
