Elections in Brazil: e-voting and cutting-edge e-democracy

October 4th, 2010

Electronic voting and e-democracy in Brazil.The 135 million voters who voted on the 3rd of October in Brazil to chose the successor of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on the first round of the presidential election, did it electronically.
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Microsites: a cheap and effective way to inform citizens

September 27th, 2010

We interviewed Graham Long, the manager of the Information Production section of the Citizens Information Board,
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The costs of government websites

September 20th, 2010

Visualisation of the costs of the UK government's websites with Many Eyes

The United Kingdom published the list of the costs of the major government websites on its Open Data portal data.gov.uk.
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The gurus of e-government

September 16th, 2010

Vivek kundra

A new era has come for e-government with the openning of public data. Worldwide, a handful of leaders, experts, politicians are working hard to spread their new conception of politics, democracy, and government organisation.
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“South Korea is aiming at ubiquitous government.”

September 6th, 2010

Interview of Marc Holzer.

South Korea has been ranked at the top of most of the e-government rankings of the past few years.
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“A new paradigm for e-government”

August 30th, 2010

Yih-Jeou Wang, manager of the OECD e-government project, has an exclusive insight on the trends at work in this field. He notices something: e-government takes a turn as a result of the severe economic crisis and to focus on the citizens needs.
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The time of Open Data

August 24th, 2010

The expression open data covers a variety of realities that are all related to the issue of publishing data that governments collect by completing their mission. This topic has been greatly popularized over the past three years under the action of organizations from the civil society
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Slovenia sets up a Wikileaks of domestic violence

July 25th, 2010

A service of anonymous reporting of domestic violence has been presented by Ms Katarina Kresal, the Slovenian Minister for the Interior, on the 9th of June 2010, epractice.eu reported.
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