The Socialist Group in European Parliament website’s audience has doubled because of Twitter
“The Alliance & Progressive Socialist Democrats in the European Parliament website’s audience has doubled in one year, because of Twitter” said Tony Robinson, head of the Internet Unit for this Parliamentary Group in Strasbourg during the European e-Democracy Award presentation for the 2009, in Issy-les-Moulineaux, last October 23. A distinction awarded by Politech Institute and IP label for the variety of web 2.0 tools used and of the content of a website whose aim is to increase citizen participation in the European debate. A presentation to see in video: [To wa

Networking democracy? ECPR Standing Group Conference in Romania June 2010
ECPR Standing Group on Forms of Participation Conference calls Networking Democracy? New media innovations in participatory politics A three day Symposium to be held at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania 25-27 June 2010. Website: http://www.brisc.info/NetDem/index.php?page=networking-democracy Democratic politics worldwide are increasingly being conducted and re-configured through the domain of digital communications networks. The socio-technical developments, such as Web 2.0, facilitating these media-saturated public spher

Hello from the Gartner Symposium/ITXPO 2009 in Cannes!
At the moment I am visiting the Gartner Symposium in Cannes which runs till Thursday, November 5th. All together I have the chance to visit nearly 500 sessions and workshops in four days. On the first day I was concentrating on the topics “social software”, “collaboration” and “web 2.0”. Nikos Drakos and Gabriel Zany from Gartner started with the workshop “Getting what you need from the social software vendors” and Andrea di Maio, leading analyst for the public sector within Gartner, spoke about “From citizen-centric to citizen-driven and employee-centric government”. At the workshop we worked in smaller groups concerning on the target groups “teams”

Mozilla Raindrop: The unified intelligent inbox?
Email has developed into a hub for all online communication and is not able to handle this task natively. Raindrop tries to tackle this problem and alongside has some potential implications for eParticipation. The internet has developed into the most lively communication tool available to us today. But this sentence is not really true: There is no such thing as “the internet” (except on a protocol level).

10 principles for a Public Administration 2.0
A decalogue like a work in progress, to promote the idea and the principles of a new Public Administration more able to act and operate in the era of the Nets. This is the “Manifesto Amministrare 2.0”, conceived in draft version during the last edition of the Forum PA (an annual exhibition dedicated