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The Europe roundup: Online cooperation as an alternative for government?

  • Russia | Online cooperation in the Russian blogosphere: an alternative for government?
    Can cyber activism provide an alternative for government? That's what Gregory Asmolov analyzes in his review of how the Russian blogosphere acted during the recent wildfires:
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The Europe roundup: An open government program, an open bill... and more on open data

  • Germany | An open government program
    The German government has published a program on open governement, in order to modernize government processes and increase transparency, "with structural reforms, new forms of collaboration and cooperation, as well as more horizontal and vertical collaboration throughout government departments as the way to do it" as reported by EPSI platform, that has more comments on the topic
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The Europe roundup: Leading by numbers

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The Europe roundup: Spaghetti open data

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The Europe roundup: Tracking coalition pledges

... and we're back to work with The Europe roundup, some interesting links and many news to come on PdF Europe conference (have you registered?)

  • UK | Tracking coalition pledges
    The Guardian has released the Coalition pledge tracker, a tool that allow people to dive into the pledges the government has made since it came to office (organized in lists and categories) and check if they have been fulfilled and what stage they're at. The tracker, inspired by the Obameter, lists the following categories:
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The Europe roundup: food for thoughts

The Europe roundup takes a couple of weeks off while we are still working on .
Meanwhile here's a talk and some readings we hope you'll enjoy:

  • Sir Tim Berners-Lee's talk at TED from last February:
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The Europe roundup: Apps for elephants

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The Europe roundup: A two-way message: Ed Miliband's recruiting campaign

  • UK | A two-way message: Ed Miliband's recruiting campaign

    Hi it's Ed Miliband. Hope you don't mind me contacting you about the leadership election. Can I count on your support? Reply Y or N. To opt-out text stop to 86888.

    Labour leadership candidate Ed Miliband has launched a mobile recruiting campaign, trying to get response and collect information on potential voters:

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The Europe roundup: Building applications to foster citizen engagement

  • EU | Building applications to foster citizen engagement
    Mobile platforms and applications are becoming very important in empowering citizens and even giving them new opportunities of engagement.
    Bengt Feil describes how Google is introducing App Inventor, a tool that would make easier to build Android apps, and explores possible developments for citizen engagement: 
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The Europe roundup: Wikileaks' war records: the datajournalism perspective

  • UK | Wikileaks' war records: the datajournalism perspective
    The Wikileaks disclosure of Afghanistan war records has been frontpage news in the last two days. It was not only about journalism, but also about datajournalism
    The three newspapers that broke the story had less than a month to choose how to publish the data: how to choose? How they did it?
    Here's what was the process at The Guardian: