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- From E-Government Bulletin, 05/11/2013 - 09:14
Online democratic campaigning is still in its infancy, with governments and campaign movements struggling to direct the large but unfocused support generated behind causes on social media, according to a new book by E-Government Bulletin editor Dan Jellinek. The use of citizen participation technologies by governments and official bodies continues to lag behind social media [...]
- From E-Government Bulletin, 05/11/2013 - 09:13
An intensive programme to boost digital inclusion work in the North East region of England has been launched by UK digital inclusion charity Go ON UK with the aim of improving basic digital skills in the area by 25% in one year. It is hoped that individuals, small businesses and charities in the region will [...]
- From E-Government Bulletin, 05/11/2013 - 09:13
The whole of the public sector can be seen as “one giant open source project” whose development can take place collaboratively between citizens and officials, a former US White House official told a recent seminar hosted by social innovation company FutureGov. Ben Balter, a former Presidential Innovation Fellow in the White House, is leading development [...]
- From E-Government Bulletin, 05/11/2013 - 09:10
By Craig Thomler John Miri, former deputy to the chief technology officer of the US state of Texas, is markedly different from the stereotype of a government IT professional. Personable, approachable and one of the few tea drinkers remaining in the US, Miri was trained in physics but pursued a career in IT after it [...]
- From E-Government Bulletin, 15/07/2013 - 10:06
Electronic petitions have ushered in a new age of popularity for citizen petitioning unseen since the early nineteenth century, according to a new book by E-Government Bulletin editor Dan Jellinek. The historical comparison is made in “People power: a user’s guide to democracy in the UK”, published this week by Transworld http://amzn.to/1aXdRMT . The right [...]
- From E-Government Bulletin, 15/07/2013 - 10:05
A mobile phone app allowing citizens in developing countries to fight corruption in development projects is one of four £500,000 winners of the Google Global Impact Challenge, which recognises technology innovations by non-profit organisations. The app is a mobile version of Development Check ( http://www.developmentcheck.org/ ), an online platform set up by international development charity [...]
- From E-Government Bulletin, 15/07/2013 - 10:02
Public sector websites should not ask citizens to register with them or create accounts just to carry out simple transactions or tasks, a leading private sector web specialist has said. “My advice for anyone creating a website is please don’t ask me to register”, Rahul Chakkara, director of online at broadband company TalkTalk told the [...]
- From E-Government Bulletin, 15/07/2013 - 10:01
By Dan Jellinek The right for a group of citizens to petition the people in charge directly (at first the monarch, and then Parliament), to ask them to put right something they feel is wrong, dates back to the Middle Ages. Its use grew until in the early nineteenth century tens of thousands of petitions [...]
- From E-Government Bulletin, 17/04/2013 - 10:09
Only 17% of UK local authorities are creating websites that can be viewed adequately on a mobile device, despite the fact that almost a third of people accessing online council information are now using such devices, according to the Society of IT Management (Socitm). The findings come as part of this year’s “Better Connected” review [...]
- From E-Government Bulletin, 17/04/2013 - 10:07
Major failures in two pieces of high-profile technology that were intended to make the recent Kenyan national elections run more smoothly are to be investigated by a special committee of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK). The glitches in March meant the country had to rely on traditional methods of polling and vote-counting. Biometric voter [...]
- From E-Government Bulletin, 17/04/2013 - 10:06
A series of ‘digital health hubs’ are being set up across the UK to teach digital skills and train people to use the internet to improve their knowledge about health, nutrition, wellness and fitness issues. The project is the result of a partnership between the Online Centres Foundation, which manages digital inclusion network UK online [...]
- From E-Government Bulletin, 17/04/2013 - 10:02
One year ago, E-Government Bulletin published a special report on BeNeighbors.org, an initiative from the pioneering non-profit E-Democracy.org to connect communities in two neighbouring US cities – Minneapolis and St Paul, known as the Twin Cities – using online forums (see E-Gov Bulletin 346: http://bit.ly/XnE5T0). Funded with a 625,000 US Dollar grant, the project had [...]
- From E-Government Bulletin, 11/02/2013 - 16:44
A project to create a standard way of formatting data on Parliamentary proceedings, from politicians’ speeches to committee papers, could open up major new areas of democratic research, the programme’s leader has said.
The LIPARM project (Linking Parliamentary Records through Metadata) was a one-year project to create an XML metadata schema – a standard way of [...]
- From E-Government Bulletin, 11/02/2013 - 16:39
The tracking of live data streams could be a key factor in creating responsive public sector policy-making and service delivery in all parts of the UK, not just cities, according to a new report from the Society of IT Management (Socitm).
‘Smart cities: how are they really different?’ ( http://bit.ly/13kY6uE ) says the use of live [...]
- From E-Government Bulletin, 11/02/2013 - 16:36
A grassroots digital inclusion project that toured the UK with an internet station in a portable cabin, helping residents increase their computer skills, is looking to start up again during 2013 and has put a call out for host destinations.
Our Digital Planet ( http://bit.ly/VICWRV ) was run by social investment body Nominet Trust during 2012. [...]
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