Democracy knows you as the poisoner of the streams of human intercourse, the fomenter of war, the preacher of hate, the unscrupulous enemy of a peaceful human society
Category: Democracy
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Rotten timber
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Gore blimey
Congratulations to Al Gore (and the IPCC) for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. I see that the BBC ‘most recommended comments’ page on the topic is, as always, full of right wing nuts.
I wonder whether the right-wing noise machine that is the BBC Have Your Say feature is a bad sign for (a) the BBC’s ability to get user interaction right, (b) the future of politics or (c) the future of the human race. Or (d) all of the above, I suppose.
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Politics Online Conference 2007
The Institute for Politics Democracy and the Internet ran a conference called Politics Online at the start of the month: its highlights are archived here.
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Civic republicanism and active citizenship
A great article by Bernard Crick in On Line Opinion (an Australian journal).
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Civic republicanism and active citizenship
A great article by Bernard Crick in On Line Opinion (an Australian journal).
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How far people engage online
Some interesting stats here on what levels of participation/content creation different net users reach. (via Paul Evans).
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The Long Tail of Participation
Interesting blog post on the Guardian’s technology blog about how democracy can be supported online. Astonishing fact: UN resolutions can’t be searched by Google because they use session-specific URIs.
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E-democracy conference, Strasbourg
Earlier this week I attended a Council of Europe conference on participation and electronic democracy. It was a very interesting event, attended by people from most Western European countries (no Central or Eastern Europe, although Estonia was mentioned as an example of good practice at the national level). The EU, EP and OECD were also represented, all of whom had their own worthy statement of ambitions, and occasionally promises of money.
Thoughts from the conference, in no particular order, after the jump.