http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy Modi creativi per aumentare la partecipazione del cittadino ai servizi pubblici online Mon, 05 May 2008 23:27:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Il 12 maggio prende il via a Roma il Forum PA 2008, tre giorni dedicati all'approfondimento, ascolto, diffusione e valorizzazione delle più importanti iniziative di innovazione che provengono di sistemi settoriali e territoriali italiani. FORUM PA si è affermato negli anni come occasione unica di incontro e confronto sull’innovazione tra attori ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/forum-pa-2008/ Il presidente della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Riccardo Illy ed il sindaco di Pordenone, Sergio Bolzonello, hanno inaugurato il 7 Aprile Wireless Naonis, la nuova rete wireless grazie alla quale tutti i cittadini potranno connettersi gratuitamente ad Internet. La novità, frutto di un protocollo di intesa per la realizzazione di ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/wireless-naonis-edemocracy-a-pordenone/ L'Italia è risultata undicesima (su 34 paesi analizzati) nella classifica annuale World e-Government Ranking stilata dalla giapponese Waseda University. Un balzo di tre posizioni rispetto alla scorsa edizione quando il nostro Paese si era classificato quattordicesimo. Leggi l'intero articolo http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/litalia-guadagna-posizioni-nelle-government/ Roberto Nicchi di Underpress.it segnala un progetto che sta per prendere il via e verrà presentato ufficialmente al forum della PA in programma in maggio a Roma. Il consolato digitale offrirà servizi quali la carta d’identità elettronica, procedure semplificate per il rilascio di passaporti e certificazioni, l’iscrizione telematica all’anagrafe degli italiani all’estero. ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/arriva-il-consolato-digitale/ Il quotidiano La Stampa pubblica oggi un interessante articolo su Dipnote, blog voluto espressamente da Condoleeza Rice per permettere ai diplomatici americani di esprimersi in massima libertà. Il blog ha un approccio informale alle questioni e garantisce l'anonimato agli autori dei post, di modo che possano esprimere idee anche (e spesso) ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/134/ WikiDemocracy è il primo esperimento al mondo per scrivere i programmi dei partiti con un processo bottom-up. Cosí come Roma non é stata fatta in un giorno, non si puó pensare che la rete sia l'unico luogo partecipativo democratico e che tutto il pregresso svanisca. L'inversione dei paradigmi é un ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/wikidemocracy/ Il Governo Britannico è desideroso di abbracciare la tecnologia per migliorare i servizi dei governi locali; ma prima è necessario un cambio di culture, dice The Guardian. The government is providing ever more pilot schemes and opportunities to engage but increasingly fewer people believe that "getting involved" is a good use ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/the-big-barrier-to-e-democracy/ L'Economist ha pubblicato un report speciale su tecnologia e governi. Perchè, si chiedono, tanto successo sul web e poco nella pubblica amministrazione? Nell' articolo principale, si sostiene che le tre ragioni principali sono la mancanza di concorrenza, la tendenza a riprodurre le rigidità e un'eccessiva attenzione sulla tecnologia a scapito dell'organizzazione. http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/economist-special-report-on-electronic-government/ Last week, the UK think tank Demos launched the Everyday Democracy Index (EDI). The EDI is an original and innovative tool for assessing the democratic health of European countries beyond the ballot box and across many different dimensions. That includes the formal dimensions of democracy, like procedural rights and election ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/the-everyday-democracy-index/ Government websites are organization-centric, complicated and confusing, according to a survey of government web professionals in the United States, New Zealand and Canada, writes Gerry McGovern on his blog New Thinking. Governments are addicted to proving that they are doing their job properly. Many government websites are politics-centric. They talk about ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/government-website-survey-from-organization-centric-to-citizen-centric/ Involve, a UK-based independent organisation focused on the practicalities of giving more power to ordinary people, just launched a new participation website. People and Participation.net is a new radical resource to help people across the UK influence Government decision-making. The site combines the strengths of an expert guide to participation with ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/people-and-participationnet/ New Zealanders have been given the chance to write their own laws, with a new online tool launched by police. The "wiki" will allow the public to suggest the wording of a new police act, as part of a government review of the current law, written in 1958. Police say they hope ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/new-zealand-police-let-public-write-laws/ Every year, the EU Benchmark Survey assesses the quality of online public services in Europe. For the first time, the survey also looked at the users experience when accessing on-line public services, in recognition of the growing importance of this topic, and found mixed results. From the press release: "The survey examined ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/eu-benchmark-shows-mixed-results-on-user-experience-of-online-public-services/ Management guru Don Tapscott, the co-author of best-seller "Wikinomics", wants to teach governments to harness the power of the Internet to reinvent democracy. Tapscott is an evangelist for Web 2.0, the second-generation Internet based on participation through social communities such as Facebook and MySpace, participatory sites like free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/harnessing-the-internet-to-reinvent-democracy/ Tiago Peixoto sent us a link to this report presenting the results of a joint OECD-World Bank stocktaking of social accountability initiatives in OECD countries. The report which was written by Peixoto, together with Joanne Caddy and Mary McNeil is part of OECD's efforts to identify emerging trends and develop ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/beyond-public-scrutiny-stocktaking-of-social-accountability-in-oecd-countries/ The method of selecting representatives for presenting the view of a constituency was deployed at the time when internet and mobile technologies were not available and there was no method of making a collective decision on policies to government the society. In today's times , most of the population have mobile ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/relooking-at-democractic-processes-in-the-light-of-new-age-technologies/ In their most recent book, Don Tapscott and David Ticoll introduce us to the "age of transparency" [book site | blog | amazon page]. They argue that corporations and governments face unrelenting pressures for greater openness that will only increase - and that the costs of resistance far outweigh ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/secrecy-and-the-perils-of-technocracy/ From climate change to social care, innovation will be critical to meeting the public service challenges of the future. But traditional approaches to generating new ideas will not be enough. Rather than focusing on processes and pipelines, policymakers and service deliverers needs to harness the potential of citizens to be ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/unlocking-innovation-%e2%80%93-why-citizens-hold-the-key-to-public-service-reform/ A new website for young people has been launched by West Sussex County Council aimed at giving them vital information and a voice for their concerns. The front page of www.yourspacewestsussex.co.uk also has the first details of how young people aged from five to 19 will soon be able to apply ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/new-uk-regional-government-website-for-young-people/ YouScotland.com is not a political party, it is a citizens' movement aimed at influencing the political process. With elections pending to Holyrood and at Council level on Thursday, May 3rd, electoral politics will inevitably dominate the next few weeks. But there will be another 204 weeks before there are new elections ... http://www.experientia.com/it/edemocracy/youscotland-represent-yourself/