Major failures in two pieces of high-profile technology that were intended to make the recent Kenyan national elections run more smoothly are to be investigated by a special committee of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK). The glitches in March meant the country had to rely on traditional methods of polling and vote-counting. Biometric voter ... Read More
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Kenya Law Committee To Probe Election Technology Failures
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013Crowdfunding for public services: Can governments crowd fund (some of the time) rather than tax?
Monday, February 11th, 2013By Craig Thomler Most governments use taxation to raise the majority of their revenue. In its simplest form, tax involves taking a share of the income earned by eligible entities, whether individuals or corporations, and placing the money in a pool. The government then decides how to spend this pool of money – on providing ... Read More
Lower Response Threshold Introduced For e-Petitions
Friday, October 5th, 2012Electronic petitions to the UK government which receive more than 10,000 signatures will now receive a written government response, Leader of the House of Commons Andrew Lansley has announced. The relevant government department will write a response to each qualifying petition, which will then be posted alongside the petition on the government’s e-petition website (http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/) ... Read More
E-Government Must Focus On The Citizen, UN Says
Monday, March 26th, 2012Governments around the world need to “rethink” e-government strategies, linking up departments and services to allow for greater emphasis on sustainable development, according to the United Nations E-Government Survey 2012. “E-government is at the core of building a strategic sustainable development framework”, says the bi-annual survey – conducted by the United Nations Public Administration Network ... Read More
US e-Politics Pioneer Phil Noble Runs For Party Office
Monday, April 18th, 2011One of the pioneers of the use of the internet in democratic politics is running for political office in the US this month: Phil Noble, founder of PoliticsOnline, is bidding to become the next chair of the Democratic Party in his home state of South Carolina. South Carolina is a largely Republican state whose Democrats ... Read More
Parliamentary Copyright Has ‘No Role’ In Age Of Open Data
Monday, April 4th, 2011The existence of Parliamentary copyright is a restrictive practice that hampers the working of democracy, a leading analyst has said. The comment was made by Dr. Andy Williamson, director of digital democracy at the Hansard Society ( http://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/ ), speaking at #senedd2011: Democracy in our networked age, an event exploring online civic engagement in the ... Read More
