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From PdF Europe 2010: Online Political Organizing in Regional and Local Campaigns
What happens when campaigning gets local? That's what we tried toexplore in the panel on "Online Political Organizing in Regional and Local Campaigns", featuring consultants more involved in the political struggle, like Andreas Jungherr and Dino Amen...
Opening PdF Europe 2010: Not Another "Day At the Office"
We opened the PdF Europe conference with this video: read more...
The Europe roundup: Best of European TechPolitics at PDF 2010
During PdF 2010, one of the afternoon session featured "The best of European tech politics". Here's a summary and some reflections written by the moderator, PDF friend and speaker Jon Worth. If you’re a United States internet politics person visiti...
When 1000s of Spaniards Rallied in Defence of Online Rights (I): A Chronicle
An online fire is burning in Europe. It was set by what appears to be a designed campaign to transform the European intellectual property regime, towards a more restrictive set of rules directly affecting the fundamental rights of freedom of expressi...
From Russia with Twitter (and my blog) in defence of our online rights
This week is ending. I've been (still I am) in Moscow for a week of teaching at the MGIMO, as I do every six months. On the academic side, no big changes or problems - well, besides a drunk student who told me in front of the rest of the students tha...
Can pan-European politics thrive online? An interview with Euroblog's Jon Worth
Ears couldn't help but perk up when, at PdF Europe, a presenter showed this map of the European blogosphere and noted the almost total lack of overlap between national online conversations, but pointed to the middle of it all and said something to ef...
Hackers and Hacks: A Post-Mortem on PdF Europe in Barcelona
I'm really pleased with how everything went at PdF Europe's first conference in Barcelona. We had a great mix of political hacks and hackers from all over the Continent, and the conversations buzzing in the hallways before, during and after each sess...
PdF Europe: Live Audio Stream at Civicolive.com/pdfeu
If you want to follow along with the Personal Democracy Forum Europe conference live by audio, we're pleased to be partnering with Civico, an internet radio station based in Birmingham, England, which will be streaming all the sessions over the next...
PdF Europe: Live Audio Stream at Civicolive.com/pdfeu
If you want to follow along with the Personal Democracy Forum Europe conference live by audio, we're pleased to be partnering with Civico, an internet radio station based in Birmingham, England, which will be streaming all the sessions over the next...
Spanish Greetings!!!!
Hi everyone! Welcome to Spain 2.0, it’s only 1 day to go and the Personal Democracy Forum Europe will begin. With this entry I will talk about the situation of Personal Democracy in Spain, covering the relevant laws, the Spanish Government ministri...
Open Declaration: ready to make a difference in EU policy
I owe the readers of PdF Europe an update on the Open Declaration on European Public Services. This is a case of "public innovation without permission", where a groups of Gov2.0 enthusiasts tries to disrupt the EU policy-making process from the outsi...
eGov versus We.Gov: who wins? EU decide
While we all know where to find the number one Euro (w)e-gov event next week (*cough* Barcelona), there is also another *fairly* important conference going on some way north around the same time. Next Thursday sees the start of the 5th Ministerial eG...
PdF Europe: Google Fellows Announced for Barcelona Conference
We're pleased to announce the following twenty people have been selected to win a Google Fellowship to attend this month's Personal Democracy Forum Europe inaugural conference in Barcelona. The fellows were selected based on their work and initiative...
Twitter list for PDF Europe
Now you can follow all the PDF Europe speakers on one list at Twitter. Now you can follow all the PDF Europe speakers in a Twitter list. I've created the PDF Europe list based on the latest list of speakers to the Barcelona conference. I'll try to up...
An interview with Tom Watson MP, Britain's 'blogging Minister'
Tom Watson MP will be speaking at next month’s Personal Democracy Forum Europe in Barcelona. In this short interview we give you a quick run down on Britain’s first blogging minister, the man credited with bringing digital engagement to governmen...
The power of social innovation: interview with Director of Social Innovation Camp, Anna Maybank
“All innovation involves the application of new ideas – or the reapplication of old ideas in new ways – to devise better solutions to our needs. Innovation is invariably a cumulative, collaborative activity in which ideas are shared, tested, re...
PdF Europe Update: Charles Leadbeater Joining as Keynoter; Early-Bird Discount Extended One More Day
We're pleased to announce that renowned British author and thinker Charles Leadbeater is joining PdF Europe as a lead keynoter at our inaugural conference in Barcelona. We've also confirmed several other additions to our already exciting and diverse...
A Survey of Scandinavian Techpolitics
Why isn't there a Sunlight Foundation in Denmark, a MySociety in Sweden, a FarmSubsidy in Norway? read more...
Pirates Board European Politics: The Internet's First Political Party
Founded in Sweden on 1st January 2006, the Pirate Party (Piratpartiet) now boasts more than 45,000 members, making it the third largest Swedish political force in number of affiliates. This rapid growth is due in part to the role the group played in...
A Scientist's Hard Life!
Tuesday October 6, Javier Pelaez (a blogger who is interested on science and has a blog that talks about it just as a hobby) asked in his Twitter profile how many persons would write in their blogs about the trim in the Spanish investment and develop...
