Presentations about Best of European Tech Politics at Personal Democracy Forum by Bente Kalsnes and James Crabtree are available for download as PDFs: Bente, James. The site demonstrated by Benoît Thieulin is La Coopol.
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Obama, Obama, Obama! He won with the internet! So this is our response…
Well, it’s not quite that but it isn’t far off.
In November 2009 the first Personal Democracy Forum Europe took place in Barcelona. Plenty of presentations about the very best of American internet politics presented to a largely European audience. And you guessed it, the US Commander in Chief featured heavily.
So when the dates for the 2010 Personal Democracy Forum New York were set, a couple of internet politics folks in Europe, Bente Kalsnes and Jon Worth, thought “let’s reverse it” and go and present the best European projects at the United States conference. This small website is our contribution to that, and we need your help.
The presentation will cover internet political initiatives:
- provided by governments directly (more detail here)
- developed using government data, but not developed by governments (more here)
- carried out by politicans and political parties to win elections (more here)
- that are campaigns to change legislation conducted by organisations or companies (more here)
By following the links above you can read more about the projects that we are already considering presenting, but please do add more in the comments or send us a message.
In return we will share all we present in New York and we hope the process of preparing the presentation should dig up some excellent examples!
4 Comments
01/05/2010
It is election year in SWEDEN with national and local elections taking place September 19. All parties, perhaps nearly a majority of individual national candidates, and literally many many hundreds of local candidates are off and running with a lot of social media technique.
Blogs, blog groups in abundance. Little less systematic use of twitter although a lot of politicians testing it out. Traditional media establishing special election news sites, the two competing alliances (red-greens and the non-socialist alliance) with separate alliance sites, blogging, twittering, bambuser film transmittal as well as youtube channels .
Traditional media special election web sites in place, “pants on fire” etc.
01/05/2010
I’ve very well aware it’s election year in Sweden… I’m doing web design for a bunch of candidates!
But I am yet to see anything really groundbreaking. Is there anything yet?
01/05/2010
Citizen journalism is a growing part, in the political world in Sweden. And an important way to get real and accurate information, behind the traditional way in news media. The different participants on the old arena, has yet to recognize what is happening and the importance of that development in politics and the media landscape.
14/05/2010
I’m not sure if this fits in, but Skanderborg Kommune in Denmark and Utsira Kommune in Norway has asked their inhabitants to help form their politics trough ideoffensiv.dk and Get Satisfaction.
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