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The Europe roundup: An enriched coverage of a debate to track people's sentiment

Antonella Napolitano | April 19, 2010 - 4:44am | Email This!
  • UK | An enriched coverage of a debate to track people's sentiment
    Last week's TV debate featuring the leaders of the three main parties was the event to follow. Apparently the most interesting aspect seems to be the instant reaction of the audience and many organizations worked on that. So did ITV channel using some very interesting tools to track electors' sentiment towards the political leaders. One of them is Worm (which was a constant of US TV coverage of debates): the tv channel selected 20 undecided voters and asked them to participate in a worm poll during the discussion:

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The Europe roundup: ONE vote 2010: in an election year poverty must be the issue

Antonella Napolitano | April 16, 2010 - 2:04am | Email This!
  • UK | ONE vote 2010: in an election year poverty must be the issue
    A dialogue between citizens and political leaders on a far, yet close issue: extreme poverty. That's the objective of UK campaign of ONE, an advocacy organization that is mobilizing people in the fight against poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. During this heated campaign, ONE vote 2010 asked the leaders of British parties to commit to the issue and go on the record explaining what to expect from them if they will win the election.

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The Europe roundup: The Digital Economy Bill: further steps, further protests

Antonella Napolitano | April 9, 2010 - 3:29am | Email This!
  • UK | The Digital Economy Bill: further steps, further protests
    The controversial Digital Economy Bill passed through the House of Commons and it's one step closer to become law (you can find the debates on Theyworkforyou), not without a strong opposition from some MPs and lots of protests. As our own Nancy Scola reports: "What seems to have folks in UK most riled up about the bill is how on substance, the legislation frees the government to take action against digital downloaders and other undesirables, including shutting down their ISP connections, and on process, that the MPs didn't seem to have any clue about the matters they were legislating upon -- when they bothered to turn up at all" (Cory Doctorow agrees on the last point).

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The Europe roundup: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Antonella Napolitano | February 26, 2010 - 6:02am | Email This!
  • E.U. | Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition
    Last week a document on Internet policy has been realeased by the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council. The document addresses Member States about illegal activities and how to fight them, but there seem to be a little confusion: copyright infringments, racist speech and child pornography are all together in the "Internet frame". A way to justify the imposition of Internet filtering?
    Jérémie Zimmermann, co-founder of the advocacy group La Quadrature du Net, has very strong words on the issue, defining the document 'disturbing'.

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