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Senator Online: an Internet based political party in Australia

rezcurra November 26, 2008 Uncategorized Comments Off

The concept is at the same time simple and revolutionary. This is a real political party -Senator On-Line- whose goal is to let people directly vote in the Senate.

Each Senator that is elected through the SOL party has a commitment to directly follow the citizens’ wishes on each piece of legislation. In order to make this real, all the australian citizens can vote for or against a given legislation in the party’s website. Each of the SOL senators will then vote in the Senate following the results of the citizen’s vote.

The founder of Senator On-Line, Berge Der Sarkissian … Continue Reading

ICT 2008, or setting the agenda for ICT r&d in Europe

rezcurra November 24, 2008 Uncategorized Comments Off

The ICT Event 2008 will take place this week, 25-27 November in Lyon France.

The gathering, is organised by the European Commission’s Directorate General for the Information Society and Media.The three days event will bring together researchers and innovators, policy and business decision-makers working in the field of digital technologies.

Around 4000 delegates are expected.Among the different activities, there two sessions are expected for people to meet with other researchers, innovators and engineers working in the Governance and Policy modelling domains.

Within the Conference programme, one of the themes is referred to the impact through policy, that will ‘focus … Continue Reading