Welsh e-Democracy gives voice to people's issues E-democracy services such as e-petitions are making it easier for the public in Wales to make their voices heard and to engage with The National Assembly.
Rebooting American eDemocracy The Personal Democracy Forum presents an anthology of forty-four essays brimming with the hopes of reenergising, reorganising, and reorienting the American government for the Internet Age.
London ePetition Day On June 11th, ICELE hosted a free event in conjunction with London Councils and the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames to explore the theme of local ePetitioning.
EU plans 'political MySpace' Plans are being developed to launch a social networking site for MEPs and MPs to boost contacts between politicians across Europe and promote a trans-European democracy.
MyParl.eu, the MySpace for politics We have learned from euobserver.com about a very interesting initiative that is being developed right now. The project, creatively named MyParl.eu is said to become a social networking website, to link MEPs and MPs from all accross Europe and foster debate about legislative proposals coming both out of Brussels and from national parliaments.
Main topics to [...]
Personal Democracy Forum 2008 Internet and technology are changing politics and the Personal Democracy Forum 2008 addresses this matter broadly.
This year, the gathering will take place at the Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City, and will treat two main topics. During the first day the discussion will focus on how technology is changing the electoral process. In [...]
European-wide discussion on the harmful effects of smoking A European-wide discussion on the harmful effects of smoking between citizens and members of regional and national parliaments through the creation of an online platform is the objective of Demos@Work project. The project, which is co-financed under the 2007 eParticipation call, was launched in January. The first pilots will take place in Catalonia and [...]
An online services portal for youngsters in Hong Kong The website provides services to young people aged between 15 and 24 years old, and is ‘contributed to by about 40 Hong Kong Government departments and bureaus and more than 140 related organisations’.
You can visit the portal here.
The ‘Mariachis’ support Barack Obama We posted about the endorsement received by Hillary Clinton. In this case is Barack Obama who gets the attention.
Interesting to see how YouTube and other similar services are gaining more and more space as valuable marketing tools among constituents, supporters and campaign teams.
mySociety(rss_2.0) (because the internet is for everyone)
The Royal Mail doesn’t know where its post boxes are A WhatDoTheyKnow user Tom Taylor has posted a cool query to the Royal Mail - he wants a list of where all the postboxes in the UK are (presumably so he can build a ‘find your nearest post box’ web site).
After some delay Colin Young of the Royal Mail responded with a list in [...]
mySociety Manchester
Meet up with the some of the friends of mySociety in Manchester for a social evening in the pub in Manchester.
First Monthly meet up is on the 16th July 2008 (third Wednesday of the month, and probably the same from then on) in the Briton’s Protection by the Bridgewater Hall (map). From roughly 7:30 until [...]
Join us at OpenTech on 5th July
OpenTech on 5th July is an informal one-day conference about technology, society and low-carbon living, featuring Open Source ways of working and technologies that anyone can have a go at.
mySociety related sessions:
mySociety session - more on time travel maps, and the launch of WhatDoTheyKnow.com, and a few other [...]
Awesome progress on video timestamping Wow! The video timestamping site on TheyWorkForYou has been live for just under ten days, but you’ve already managed to timestamp almost 14,000 clips - that’s almost 40% of our entire video archive!
Thank you for all the good work - and especially to our top timestampers. David Jones, Alex Hazell and Lee Maguire are [...]
