eFederalism

11 years ago
by John Gøtze in

E-democracy, direct democracy, community & action, fragmentation & networks, accountability & representation – these are the headlines in Kala Ladenheim’s essay Federalism & Electronic Democracy. Kala’s site is a sonnet cycle rather than an epic poem.
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Best of the best

11 years ago
by John Gøtze in

The latest news from eDenmark: Bedst på Nettet – Kvalitetsvurdering af offentlige hjemmesider (Best on the Net – Quality Assessment of Public Websites) is the latest attempt from the Danish Government in making Denmark’s public sector digital.
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eHabermas

11 years ago
by John Gøtze in

I found an interesting text today: The European Economic and Social Committee: towards deliberative democracy via a functional assembly: “The importance of deliberation in democracy has been especially brought to the attention of political theorists by Jürgen Habermas. His discursive democracy is a discourse-based model instead of an interest-based model of democracy. Democracy revolves around transformation rather than simply aggregation of preferences.” It’s been a while since I read Habermas, it may be time to re-read him.
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Going to Germany?

11 years ago
by John Gøtze in

The International Conference on Social Computing, ICSC 2001 in Bremen on October 1-3, 2001 is about Governing the Network Society. I should write a paper …
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