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Articles and resources about trends and issues in community and citizen engagement initiatives by government in Europe.
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- WeGov Initial Evaluation and First Workshop Results - in pdf format (210kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). WeGov Press Release, Belgium, Brussels, 30 November, 2011. "The aim of the WeGov project is to improve the engagement between governments and citizens via popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Evaluation with policy-makers to gather their needs, thoughts and feedback has been an ongoing process throughout the project, but special events were carried out by GESIS and Gov2u in June and early July 2011 as well as October and November 2011..."
Added: 8 December 2011;
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- Pan European eParticipation Network (PEP-NET)
- "PEP-NET is a European network of all stakeholders active in the field of eParticipation. PEP-NET includes public bodies, solution providers and citizen organizations as well as researchers and scientists. The network is open to all organizations willing and actively trying to advance the idea and use of eParticipation in Europe."
Added: 29 June 2009;
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- eParticipation - European Journal of ePractice no. 7
- European Commission, 4 March 2009. "On the one hand, it is clear that many have disengaged from formal politics, voter turnout is falling, membership of political parties is declining, and there is a widespread sense of a loss of trust in government and politicians. On the other hand, there is a surge of grass-root, often single issue engagement in policy making, people generally are more aware of public policy issues, and there are more outlets and channels enabling participation. Much of this is supported, and in fact driven forward, by new ICT tools..." Contents include: Contextualising Public (e)Participation in the Governance of the European Union; eParticipation initiatives: How is Europe progressing?; Evaluating eParticipation Projects: Practical Examples and Outline of an Evaluation Framework; E-consultations: New tools for civic engagement or facades for political correctness?; Beyond Theory: e-Participatory Budgeting and its Promises for eParticipation; Family Policies – A Promising Field of eParticipation; The e-participation project of Neuchâtel; Usability Engineering in eParticipation..."
Added: 6 March 2009;
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- European E-Government Research Projects Highlighted
- By Wayne Hanson. Government Technology, December 10, 2008. "... According to a report: e-Government and e-Participation, if the Danish invoicing system was rolled out across the EU, projected annual savings would total €50 billion... The report, a policy perspective on ICT research, looks at a number of ICT projects which "do make a difference for citizens and businesses dealing with public administrations at all levels."..."
Added: 11 December 2008;
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- e-Government and e-Participation - in pdf format (486kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). ICT Research The Policy Perspective. ICT Results. European Commission, Information Society and Media, 2008. "In this report produced for the publication series ICT Research: The Policy Perspective, we examine how information and communications technology, or ICT, is revolutionising the way citizens, businesses and public administrations interact. The EU is investing heavily in e-government to help boost growth while delivering on the benefits of the information society, including greater cross-border collaboration, less fragmented research effort, and access to ICT anywhere, any time and by any one..."
Added: 11 December 2008;
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- Video Republic
- by Peter Bradwell, Celia Hannon, Charlie Tims. Demos, 6 October 2008. "... The falling price of digital technology and the proliferation of broadband access have blown open a whole range of ways for young people to express themselves and communicate with each other in video. The internet is increasingly shaped around moving images. Video mash-ups, citizen journalism, vlogging, viral-video marketing, community film-making projects, happyslapping... we can see the audiovisual explosion everywhere. This pamphlet charts the rise of a 'Video Republic' – a new space for expression created primarily by young people..."
Added: 9 October 2008;
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- Commission consults on how to put Europe into the lead of the transition to Web 3.0
- European Commission, Press Release, IP/08/1422, Brussels, 29 September 2008. "Europe could take the lead in the next generation of the Internet. The European Commission today outlined the main steps that Europe has to take to respond to the next wave of the Information Revolution that will intensify in the coming years due to trends such as social networking, the decisive shift to on-line business services, nomadic services based on GPS and mobile TV and the growth of smart tags. The report shows that Europe is well placed to exploit these trends because of its policies to support open and pro-competitive telecom networks as well as privacy and security. A public consultation has been launched today by the Commission on the policy and private sector responses to these opportunities. The Commission report also unveils a new Broadband Performance Index (BPI) that compares national performance on key measures such as broadband speed, price, competition and coverage. Sweden and the Netherlands top this European broadband league, which complements the more traditional broadband penetration index used so far by telecoms regulators..."
Added: 7 October 2008;
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- Citizen-inspired e-government for 'thin-skinned' cities
- ICT Results, 11 August 2008. "Three European city councils have joined forces to develop a new citizen-inspired tool that will increase the responsiveness of city services to user needs, reports ICT Results. E-government is the 'in' thing and a growing number of public services can now be delivered online. A major challenge faced, however, is how to get citizens more involved in public life and encourage greater interaction between the public sector and the man in the street. Three city authorities – Dublin, Helsinki and Barcelona – decided to get together to develop a new tool aimed primarily at improving citizen involvement in civic affairs and increasing the responsiveness of local services..."
Added: 14 August 2008;
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- The eParticipation Trans-European Network for Democratic Renewal & Citizen Engagement
- by John O'Flaherty (MAC). ePractice.eu, 18 July 2008. "Case Abstract - eParticipate is a 31 month Initial Deployment eTEN follow-on from the very successful Market Validation of an eParticipation multimedia platform that was launched in the UK, Spain, Ireland and Slovakia. eParticipate provides an open integrated standard web-based network & gateway of existing 'best of breed' applications (called Public-i) to enable public bodies to implement and benefit from a range of eParticipation tools to broaden the participation of citizens in the democratic process..."
Added: 23 July 2008;
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- Think Paper 6: The Participative Citizen - in pdf format (266kb)
(This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). by Nicola Hall, Birmingham, England, 23rd January 2007. Version No. 2.0. Prepared for the eGovernment unit, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission. "This paper looks at what it is to be a citizen, and what new technologies contribute to citizenship. It focuses on active or participatory citizenship and looks at examples of activity where the 'e' has been added to participatory citizenship. It defines e-democracy and then goes on to consider what factors or conditions need to be in place for the 'e' in participatory citizenship to work effectively..."
Added: 18 September 2007;
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