Tobias Escher at the OII

In a recent post I blogged about how the German RateMyTeachers Gets Legal Approval. A teacher sued the German teacher rating site spickmich.de because it would would infringe her personal rights but the judges did not follow her argumentation. In the meantime the site operators won another court case against a teacher. While it surely [...]

Monday and Tuesday of this week saw an event happening that I have been looking forward to very much: Berlin in August, an informal summit of European eDemocracy practitioners, which has been organised by politik-digital and MySociety. The gathering took place in the former Staatsratsgebaeude (see picture) which used to house the government of the [...]

Some time ago I posted about US gov pays Google adlinks to get its message across on Iraq. Today I saw that also the UK government has (finally?) realised the potential of using ads to draw its citizens to some of its services. The screen shot below shows how a Google UK search for “488l [...]

Coming up very soon is a nice little project I am very excited about: On 13th and 14th August some of the best European practitioners in the area of eDemocracy will gather in Berlin. The goal is to get together a few people from across Europe who actually want to see real online democracy projects [...]