The Europe Roundup: Social Networks and Voting in Italy: is There New Evidence?
BY Antonella Napolitano | Friday, July 8 2011
Italy | Social Networks and Voting in Italy: is There New Evidence? In the past two months Italy has faced a round of elections – two administrative ballots and a referendum day – which have been unanimously ... Read More
The Europe roundup: Petition Your Council. Easily.
BY Antonella Napolitano | Wednesday, July 6 2011
UK | Petition Your Council. Easily. Yesterday mySociety.org launched a new project called PetitionYourCouncil.com: the website has been built to make it easy to petition your local council using their official online ... Read More
The Europe Roundup: The Danger of Transparency
BY Antonella Napolitano | Wednesday, June 29 2011
Slovakia | The danger of transparency A couple of weeks ago the winners of the Open Data Challenge were announced at the First Digital Agenda Assembly in Brussels. Best in the application category was ZNasichDani.sk ... Read More
UK Home Office Considers Mapping Faces of Criminals
BY Nick Judd | Monday, June 27 2011
The United Kingdom's Police.uk crime mapping website may be expanded to include photographs of offenders and more details about their offences, the BBC reported Sunday. The BBC gave a tip of the hat to the Sunday Times, ... Read More
The Europe roundup: Europe gets geeks - does it, really?
BY Antonella Napolitano | Tuesday, June 21 2011
EU | Europe gets geeks - does it, really? The Digital Agenda Assembly concluded its works last week gathering 1300 people from over Europe to discuss the key points of the Digital Agenda, the EU strategy for the digital ... Read More
The Europe Roundup: MySociety.org Evaluation Reports
BY Antonella Napolitano | Friday, June 17 2011
UK | mySociety.org evaluation reports After years of successful projects aimed at raising civic awareness, mySociety.org commissioned a detailed analysis of two of its most successful projects, TheyWorkForYou and ... Read More
Think Globally, Tweet Locally: British Town Council In Midst of 24 Hours of Tweets
BY Nick Judd | Thursday, March 3 2011
Boring but important: The Walsall Town Council took to Twitter March 24 to explain its value to citizens, 140 characters at a time. One of the weirdly great things about the rising significance of the Internet in daily ... Read More
British Austerity Battle Takes Up "Facts on Fees"
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, December 10 2010
Tories in the British government are rather chuffed with the response to their online campaign called "Fact on Fees," an attempt to push the conservative take on tuition increases for universities in the UK. Read More
A Spot of Tech with the PM's Toast
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, October 14 2010
From the UK Conservatives' Flickr feed: "The Prime Minister David Cameron has a piece of toast and checks the web on an iPad." Read More