Only a few weeks after Saudi Arabia launched its first major campaign against domestic violence, another campaign has picked up momentum on social media. Sponsored by Libra Productions, the campaign slogan ...
What should we do with plastic waste? European citizens have a say!
Each year in the European Union alone we throw away 3 billion tons of waste - some 90 million tons of it hazardous. This amounts ...
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... outstretched arms.
Designer Levis Reyes hasn't faced problems with planning permission for his flamboyant Liberty Piers, expanding out of Manhattan's Southern tip. The development is made up of pixels ...
Sweden reinvents urban planning with citizen participation using 3D and Facebook
Gothenburg, the second largest city in Sweden, launches a unique 3D web service engaging citizens to contribute with ideas ...
If you’ve already got New Year’s resolutions, these six steps to protecting your identity online will be the easiest one of the bunch, and will only take a few hours. The year 2012 may well be remembered ...
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European Single Digital Market: Strategies and Contribution of LSPs was the focus of Mr. Vasilis Koulolias' presentation in the "europeone eGovernment conference" that took place the 3rd – 4th of December ...
With this map, Gregor Aisch tried to visualize the global digital divide. It shows more than 80,000 populated places in blue and about 350,000 locations of IP addresses in ...
White Paper.
We are delighted to be republishing this blog post found on Democratic Society’s official webpage.
The post features the executive summary of a White Paper, written by Anthony Zacharzewski in ...
(Matching tags: European Union,Change,Freedom of Expression,European Citizen Initiative,Civil Rights,Censorship,Citizens)
United for Change.
A couple of weeks ago, 3 million of us signed a petition urging US Congressmen to reject SOPA on the ground that it choked innovation and our freedom of expression. It ...
Today, GOV2U joins Wikipedia, the Reddit community and a myriad of other websites and companies to defend the free internet from the bill which enables the government and corporations ...
OWS is so large it has its own spin-offs
The OccupyWallStreet movement has been a major success in the sheer number and tenacity of its participants. Large part of this success is due ...
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A Righteous Policy of Web Transparency
About a year ago, Google unveiled its Google Transparency Report, the company's latest effort to stick to its commitment on transparency and openness ...
(Matching tags: participation,Internet,tools for policy-making,Gov2u Project,wegov)
... a closer look at the increasing levels of mobilization online and on social networking websites, quickly reveals that civic participation has not died – but it has evolved in a form which politicians and ...
... understand the five ways in which you can enforce your rights under EU law. It provides the information in a way that is accessible to all, with insider tips and honest advice on each on the mechanisms. ...
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Thanks to some dogged nudging by the good folks at MuckRock.com, we now have a letter from Colonel Craig A. Smith (USAF) with an authoritative list of the websites blocked by the ...