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The Europe roundup: Wikileaks' war records: the datajournalism perspective
Antonella Napolitano | July 28, 2010 - 5:54pm | Email This!- UK | Wikileaks' war records: the datajournalism perspective
The Wikileaks disclosure of Afghanistan war records has been frontpage news in the last two days. It was not only about journalism, but also about datajournalism
The three newspapers that broke the story had less than a month to choose how to publish the data: how to choose? How they did it?
Here's what was the process at The Guardian:
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The Europe roundup: Eurobloggers and policy: how to build bridges
Antonella Napolitano | July 21, 2010 - 6:51pm | Email This!- EU | Eurobloggers and EU policy: how to build bridges
A couple of weeks ago on Public affairs 2.0 blog, Steffen explained the possibile influence of new voices in the EU, defining eurobloggers and policy bloggers and the intersection of the two groups. After all the conversations that followed the launch event of the Brussels Blogger Study, Mathew Lowry reflects on whether the lack of specialists in EU-oriented blogs is impeding the development of the European online public space.
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The Europe roundup: The Brussels Blogger Study
Antonella Napolitano | July 19, 2010 - 11:02am | Email This!- EU | The Brussels Blogger Study
Brussels based PR company Waggener Edstrom has recently published a study on the EU blogosphere, called the Brussels Blogger Study (here available - but not downloadable). Many eurobloggers attended the launch event of the report (you can see all the Twitter reaction with the hash tag: #bbs10) [edit: as it was pointed out, almost all of them attended the event via Twitter, after Jon Worth - who was actually there - started tweeting. And he precised: "Odd then that I heard about the event via other bloggers, and had to invite myself to attend"]. But many of them weren’t convinced with the criteria that were used to determine influence and ranking.
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The Europe roundup: The UK Spending Challenge: the open source approach
Antonella Napolitano | June 28, 2010 - 1:09pm | Email This!- UK | The UK Spending Challenge: the open source approach
Are you taking part to the spending challenge launched by the UK government?
Richard Fahey analyzes the initiative in depth, comparing the initiative to the Obama Administration’s SAVE Award, a competition that was so successful (over 38.000 ideas were submitted) that it has been turned into an annual event.
Then Fahey points out the importance of "the open source approach" to cut unnecessary spending:
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The Europe roundup: Wikicrazia: public policies and online collaboration... in action!
Antonella Napolitano | June 16, 2010 - 6:08am | 2 comments | Email This!- Italy | Wikicrazia: public policies and online collaboration... in action!
PDF Europe speaker Alberto Cottica proposes an interesting experiment of web collaboration: next September he will publish a book called "Wikicrazia", exploring how public policies can be shaped and changed by the web and the new ways of online collaboration. At the beginning of June he has published the last draft of the book, asking for comments and creating a debate on the different topics he dealt with in the book.
Every week Cottica is publishing a post, analyzing the contributions of his readers and sharing how they helped him writing a better book: so far he received 98 (very detailed) comments.
The experiment will continue until the end of the month, so - if you understand Italian - become a "wikicratico" and help him!
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The Europe roundup: How Russian gay activists used the Internet to outwit the Police
Antonella Napolitano | May 31, 2010 - 12:05pm | Email This!- Russia | How Russian gay activists used the Internet to outwit the Police
This weekend a Gay Pride march took place in Moscow took place, but it wasn't a common event. The Moscow LGBT community has been trying to stage a Gay Pride march every year since May 2006 but the permit has always been denied by the City authorities.
On Saturday, a small group of about 30 participants briefly marched in the busy Leningradsky Street, after organisers totally out-witted the police an security services. More of a flashmob than a march, as it lasted just 10 minutes, but still a significant result for the LGBT community. How was it possible?
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The Europe roundup: Your country, your call - and some controversy
Antonella Napolitano | May 27, 2010 - 6:33pm | Email This!- Ireland | Your country, your call - and some controversy
Some months ago we wrote about "Your country your call", a competition launched by the Irish government to find projects that could secure development and prosperity. The competition has been widely advertised in the country and closed last month with over 9.000 proposals. Richard Fahey describes the development of the initiative, analyzing the many questions raised on the competion funding and on the quantity and quality of the ideas.
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The Europe roundup: The Coalition: what to expect from the new government
Antonella Napolitano | May 26, 2010 - 6:57am | Email This!- UK | The Coalition: what to expect from the new government
A few days ago David Cameron and Nick Clegg explained their plans for the new government, aiming at creating a radical change in the country. A whole section is devoted to government transparency: "It says how important it is for government to open the doors of public bodies to ensure they are held accountable for their actions and spending. The importance of setting government data free is also recognised as a catalyst towards “enabling businesses and non-profit organisations to build innovative applications and websites” reports Richard Fahey.
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The Europe roundup: Twitter: a new prediction system for elections?
Antonella Napolitano | May 14, 2010 - 6:32am | Email This!- UK | Twitter: a new prediction system for elections?
During the UK electoral campaign Tweetminster conducted a Twitter-based word of mouth experiment : they tracked the most mentioned constituencies and candidates and tried to map the correlation between buzz, word-of-mouth and the eventual election results through a predictive mode (here you can read more about initial findngs and methodology).
The results?
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The Europe roundup: Action replay: an Internet election in UK?
Antonella Napolitano | May 12, 2010 - 8:36am | Email This!- UK | Action replay: an Internet election in UK?
UK has a new Prime Minister, David Cameron. As the new Prime Minister is working on the new government, it's time to reflect on how the web influenced this election. Well, we'll discuss it tomorrow in London at Action Replay, a formal review of the Britain's first digital election.
Meanwhile take a look to some interesting views on the topic.
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