“Harnessing the power of the Internet for better communication” – Here is an interesting open letter (in case you have not seen it on twitter…) from the European Commission’s Internet editors and webmasters to Commission President Barroso and incoming Commissioners in which they ask for more web 2.0 in EU institutions… Read it here.
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ECR group in the European Parliament: Cybersquatted!
Cyberquatting is coming to the EU. The victim: The ECR Group in the European Parliament. Brought to you by Jon Worth:
The new group took the name European Conservatives and Reformists (a contradiction in terms even in the name) but no-one thought to register any domain name for the new group before its establishment. So on [...]
You are a Terrorist
It has been 8 years since 9/11 and we are still dealing with the consequences. Not only in Afghanistan, Iraq, or somewhere else (obviously these a major problems as well) but also ‘at home’ in Europe. So here is something to think about:
The video is a German perspective (with English subtitles!) on the recent security [...]
Us Now: Governance 2.0
“Us Now” is an interesting documentary about “the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet.” (via) Although most examples are well known (at least among “political web 2.0 geeks” …), the film provides a good overview about different collaborative internet projects and how politics might change in the future:
In a world in which information [...]
NATO goes viral
Just a few days before the summit celebrating 60 years of existence, NATO has launched an online campaign, with the goal of raising the awareness of young people regarding its activities. The campaign consists of three short movies, exploring the contrast violence and danger vs. peace and security. The movies, made by PR company Scholz [...]
Visualising the Credit Crisis
Some lazy blogging – Another video in our irregular series (see here for part I and part II) on how to explain political issues with an online video.This time a visualization of the credit crisis:
The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis.
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis [...]
Social networking or who’s afraid of solitude?
Sunday afternoon- some food for thought, again (from our very irregular series), this time on Internet and social networking. Funnily enough, both articles have the same author, William Deresiewicz.
In “The End of Solitude”, he explores the effects that Internet connectivity and the use of social media have on young people’s ability to be alone, to [...]
Europeana is (finally) online but…
After a failed attempt a couple of weeks ago, Europeana, the European digital library, was finally launched! (at least in some sort of beta version) Numerous prestigious European archives, libraries and musems contributed to the site and added around 2 million “digtial objects” (images, texts, sounds, videos) to Europeana. So if you fancy browsing through [...]
Research on User Perceptions of EU website
Interesting piece of research on “how online experiences feed back into offline perceptions” in the case of the official europa.eu website which indeed has some potential for improvement regarding content, accessibility, participation and navigation. Some points are obvious, others quite surprising though:
The hierarchical structure that relies on top-down decision processes often led to the Internet [...]
Good news from the European Parliament
Just a short update on two issues that have also been discussed on this blog:
1. What happened with the “Telecoms Package” (that I have mentioned here and here)? It seems that most of the worrying amendments regarding copyright issues (especially the three strikes approach) were not adopted by the European Parliament. A detailed analysis by [...]
