Tobias Escher at the OII

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 [...]

Rooted in a belief that modern information technologies can be a force for good, there have been a number of projects that wired up local communities. Usually that means providing Internet access for its residents and community mailings lists and so on to enable communication among the people living there. The most famous projects I [...]

18th May 2007, 8.30pm, the Oxford Union debates the following motion: “This House believes that the Internet is the greatest force for democratization in the World” (for some background on the event see my earlier post) supporting the motion: Alex Campbell (from Oxford) Jimbo Wales Ron Deibert Bo Aung Din opposing the motion: Andrew Goodman [...]

Coming up tonight at 8.30pm GMT at the Oxford Union (from their own account apparently the world’s most prestigious debating society) is a debate about whether or not The Internet is the greatest force for democratisation in the World This event is organized in the context of the first conference on Internet filtering by the [...]

A new website by the British Council in Germany and German political web-zine politik-digital aims to collect websites of e-participation projects in Germany and the UK. It’s available at: http://www.e-participation.net (No worries, the whole site is in English)

In respect to one recent comment on one of Wolf’s posts about “Theft in Second Life” I just wanted to share this story with you: In its development to become ever more a mirror of the real world, Second Life can now even claim its own revolutionary (some might say terrorist) movement. Enter: the Second [...]

The (not so new anymore) e-petitions site of the Prime Minister is all over the news today and Bill was already blogging about it: Tonight saw the deadline for people to register with a petition against road pricing (the long response time seems to be an indicator of the continuing high demand) which was by [...]

Today we had very nice Peter M. Shane present the findings of the Virtual Agora Project. This was a three year National Science Foundation funded project designed to establish how to best facilitate citizen deliberation with the use of online tools.summary of project Phase I was a controlled experiment that involved 550 randomly sampled Pittsburghers. [...]