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bengtfeil (New User)

Bengt Feil holds a diploma in political science and works at TuTech’s department InteractiveCommunication since 2007 mainly in the field of E-Democracy and increased citizen participation in planni... More about bengtfeil

Paul Johnston

London-based ex-civil servant now working for Cisco as head of the European public sector team within IBSG, Cisco's global strategic consulting arm. Launched and helped shape this site after wri... More about Paul Johnston

Tim Bonnemann

I'm the founder and CEO of Intellitics, an early-stage startup in the e-participation space. More about Tim Bonnemann

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Feature: Draft Whitepaper on Obama and Transparency

Featured. PDF uploaded by Paul Johnston 6 days ago.
Last comment 5 days ago, 2 Comments.

This is an early version of a whitepaper I am working on about the Obama administration's open government initiatives. I realise that we are all waiting with bated breadth for the transparency directive that is due in the next couple of weeks, but I would be interested in feedback on the paper in the meantime. I do think this year Nobel Peace Prize winner :-) has done a good job in moving the debate forward in this area, but I think there is still plenty to think about and a lot more that nee... Read more

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bengtfeil (New User) created eParticipation beyond political topics? about 7 hours ago.

Right now we are thinking eParticipation mainly as a tool for political or administrative issues. But why stop there? eParticipation tools could be used any other area of discourse which needs the involvement many participants. One example would be the development of long term strategies which affect a large population of a region. Adaptation to climate change is one of these large scale challenges and the Klimzug-Nord project in Germany tries to make use of eParticipation to tackle it. O...
Paul Johnston created Open Declaration: Mass Participation Phase about 11 hours ago.

We have now finalised the open declaration - you can see the final text here. The next stage is to get as many people as possible to endorse it. The main place we are doing this is via a very simple sign-up site which my collaborator David Osimo created. If you have not done so already, please go to http://www.endorsetheopendeclaration.eu/ and endorse the declaration! We have also created a facebook group, so feel free to join this group and highlight the group to your facebook fri...
Paul Johnston edited a PDF file: Draft Whitepaper on Obama and Transparency 5 days ago.

This is an early version of a whitepaper I am working on about the Obama administration's open government initiatives. I realise that we are all waiting with bated breadth for the transparency directive that is due in the next couple of weeks, but I would be interested in feedback on the paper in the meantime. I do think this year Nobel Peace Prize winner :-) has done a good job in moving the debate forward in this area, but I think there is still plenty to think about and a lot more that nee...
Paul Johnston commented on Draft Whitepaper on Obama and Transparency 5 days ago.

Thanks, Tim. What a mistake! Hope you enjoyed the delib paper - I will switch change the document and upload the right one!! Should be the right one now.
Tim Bonnemann commented on Draft Whitepaper on Obama and Transparency 6 days ago.

Are you sure the link is correct? It's referencing Delib's briefing paper from last month. Unless that is your whitepaper, of course. ;-)