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The Europe roundup: food for thoughts

Antonella Napolitano | August 6, 2010 - 6:00am | Email This!

The Europe roundup takes a couple of weeks off while we are still working on .
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  • Sir Tim Berners-Lee's talk at TED from last February:
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The Europe roundup: Tracking coalition pledges

Antonella Napolitano | August 23, 2010 - 1:54pm | Email This!

... and we're back to work with The Europe roundup, some interesting links and many news to come on PdF Europe conference (have you registered?)

  • UK | Tracking coalition pledges
    The Guardian has released the Coalition pledge tracker, a tool that allow people to dive into the pledges the government has made since it came to office (organized in lists and categories) and check if they have been fulfilled and what stage they're at. The tracker, inspired by the Obameter, lists the following categories:
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The Europe roundup: Apps for elephants

Antonella Napolitano | August 4, 2010 - 2:50pm | Email This!
  • UK | Apps for elephants
    After the iPhone apps story by BBC, more thoughts on what should government do when it comes to using new tools and foster technical innovation:
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The Europe roundup: Spaghetti open data

Antonella Napolitano | August 25, 2010 - 5:11pm | Email This!
  • Italy | Spaghetti open data
    [note: a previous version of this post contained a quote in Italian - we have replaced it with the English translation]

    PdF speaker Alberto Cottica explains that there are good news on the Italian open data scenario, both on local and national level: after the Piedmont Region,  the Ministry of Economy is building interesting databases and creating new possibilities of using data information on budgeting:

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The Europe roundup: An open government program, an open bill... and more on open data

Antonella Napolitano | August 30, 2010 - 1:20pm | Email This!
  • Germany | An open government program
    The German government has published a program on open governement, in order to modernize government processes and increase transparency, "with structural reforms, new forms of collaboration and cooperation, as well as more horizontal and vertical collaboration throughout government departments as the way to do it" as reported by EPSI platform, that has more comments on the topic: 
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Announcing Google Fellowships for PdF Europe 2010

Micah L. Sifry | September 2, 2010 - 2:03pm | Email This!

With the second annual Personal Democracy Forum Europe conference just over a month away, we're pleased to announce that with the help of our longtime sponsor Google, we are making ten fellowships available to talented and deserving political technology innovators. The fellowships cover the conference registration fee and two nights lodging at the conference hotel.

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The Europe roundup: Leading by numbers

Antonella Napolitano | August 27, 2010 - 5:20pm | Email This!
  • Italy | Leading by (virtual?) numbers
    Earlier this week a press release stated that Puglia governor Nichi Vendola passed Prime Minister Berlusconi on Facebook: one of the possible and most discussed competitors of Berlusconi, Vendola has now almost 240.000 fans, 13.000 more than the PM and it's third among political leaders in Europe (after Downing Street and London Mayor Boris Johnson).
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Brasil desentroniza a la televisión

Diego Beas | August 25, 2010 - 10:58am | Email This!

¿Un debate presidencial solamente emitido a traves de Internet? ¿En un país en el cono sur con una baja penetración de la red? Pues sí, eso fue justamente lo que sucedio la semana pasada en Brasil cuando la oficialista Dilma Rousseff del Partido de los Trabajadores, José Serra del Partido de la Social Democracia Brasileña y Marina Silva del Partido Verde se encontraron en el segundo debate de la campaña presidencial. De más de tres horas de duración, el debate registró más de 1,4 millones de accesos de 127 países, según datos proporcionados por los organizadores.

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The Europe roundup: Online cooperation as an alternative for government?

Antonella Napolitano | September 1, 2010 - 2:33pm | Email This!
  • Russia | Online cooperation in the Russian blogosphere: an alternative for government?
    Can cyber activism provide an alternative for government? That's what Gregory Asmolov analyzes in his review of how the Russian blogosphere acted during the recent wildfires:
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Los tweet-presidentes

Diego Beas | August 18, 2010 - 10:06am | Email This!

Post invitado de Javier Pereira (jpereira001@gmail.com)

Hace sólo unos días, Jenna Dawn y Laura Gómez, dos portavoces oficiales de Twitter, se mostraron “encantadas” con la participación reciente de presidentes y jefes de Estado de América Latina en la red de microblogging, por el dinamismo que le imprimen a su plataforma. “La incursión de líderes políticos y presidentes, en general, están generando mucho movimiento; así que nos alegra que personajes como el presidente Hugo Chávez utilicen nuestra red”, dijo Dawn durante un evento en Ciudad de México.

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El nuevo ecosistema de la información

Diego Beas | August 16, 2010 - 1:16pm | Email This!

Hace apenas unas semanas le preguntaron a Daniel Ellsberg —responsable de filtrar a la prensa los Papeles del Pentágono en 1971— qué habría hecho hoy, en la era de las redes e Internet, si tuviera en sus manos documentos de la misma importancia de aquellos que fueron el principio del fin no sólo de la guerra de Vietnam, sino también de la presidencia de Richard Nixon.

Sin dudarlo, Ellsberg, un hombre que casi alcanza los ochenta años y que ha hecho del acceso a la información y la transparencia en el gobierno una misión, respondió: compraría un escáner y los subiría a Internet.

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Los hispanos en EE UU y la banda ancha

Diego Beas | August 26, 2010 - 1:27pm | Email This!

Hace unos días el Public Policy Institute de California publicó un informe sobre la penetración de la banda ancha en el estado. Entre las estadísticas más destacadas está una que revela la creación de una nueva brecha digital que afectará no sólo el uso de las propias herramientas y tecnologías, sino también y más importante la participación política del futuro. El informe se puede leer como una radiografía preliminar de la relación entre diversos grupos sociales y la interacción con el Gobierno.

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El censo de los 'smartphones'

Diego Beas | August 30, 2010 - 11:37am | Email This!

Brasil se vuelve a poner por delante en la adopción tecnológica, no sólo en América Latina, sino en el resto del mundo. El país está en el proceso de llevar a cabo el primer censo completamente digital del planeta. 150.000 'smartphones' que servirán para contar a los habitantes del quinto país más poblado del mundo. Fuera quedaron el papel y los métodos tradicionales para reemplazarlos con pantallas táctiles equipadas con GPS y sofisticados ficheros centrales que recibirán vía internet la información que se captura en los dispositivos móviles.

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La 'blogosfera' cubana sigue marcando el ritmo

Diego Beas | September 2, 2010 - 7:09pm | Email This!

Alguna ventaja tenía que tener vivir en un régimen opresivo como el cubano. La histórica censura de los medios y la limitada difusión de información a lo largo de los últimos 50 años se han visto recompensadas recientemente por una hambre ciudadana por abrir nuevos canales de comunicación y vías de intercambio de información a todos los niveles. Paso a paso, Internet se ha ido consolidando como una plataforma ideal desde la cual alentar y articular a la oposición. Sin parangón en el resto de América Latina.

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