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		<title>Want a Smart City? Take the people out!</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/want-a-smart-city-take-the-people-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recent news: An international technology company plans to develop and operate a massive technology testing and evaluation centre in New Mexico. The state Economic Development Department announced Tuesday that Pegasus Global Holdings is conducting a study on the best New &#8230; <a href="http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/want-a-smart-city-take-the-people-out/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=170419&amp;post=1765&amp;subd=spartakan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open data and personal data systems in the UK and England (+ Scotland and Wales and NI?)</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/open-data-and-personal-data-systems-in-the-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago, Mydex (via William Heath) published a brief UK list of government initiatives on the Ideal Government site, looking at applications of personal data systems (PDS). The motivation is the belief that: Only the addition of &#8230; <a href="http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/open-data-and-personal-data-systems-in-the-uk/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=170419&amp;post=1759&amp;subd=spartakan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Local government and social networking</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/local-government-and-social-networking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[e-government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inclusion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Slee has just posted a great summary with tons of example of the opportunities that intelligent use of Facebook can open up for local government. I&#8217;ve had a couple of thoughts in response (a bit much for a comment, &#8230; <a href="http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/local-government-and-social-networking/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=170419&amp;post=1754&amp;subd=spartakan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&lt;yawn&gt;, &lt;stretch&gt;, &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/yawn-stretch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know what, now that the summer holidays are coming to an end, I may revive this blog. Meantime, if you are a blogger yourself, you could do worse than complete Catherine Howe&#8217;s &#8220;Bloggers, Place and Identity&#8221; survey&#8230; Peter Filed &#8230; <a href="http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/yawn-stretch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=170419&amp;post=1748&amp;subd=spartakan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Next challenge for petitioning software: the ECI</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/eci-petition-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/eci-petition-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 22:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[e-democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-participation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is times like this that it is frustrating to live in a city that&#8217;s (let&#8217;s face it) at the periphery of the EU, and to be working in times of budgetary constraint. There are a lot of exciting developments &#8230; <a href="http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/eci-petition-challenge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=170419&amp;post=1732&amp;subd=spartakan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Co-design for Smart Cities</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/co-design-for-smart-cities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 21:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[e-government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Methodologies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, we ran a workshop on Co-design for the Smart Cities project looking at the challenges that co-design presents local government &#8211; so we were privileged to be joined by managers from four cities around the North Sea region &#8230; <a href="http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/co-design-for-smart-cities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=170419&amp;post=1719&amp;subd=spartakan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 100 day lifespan of the e-petition</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/the-100-day-lifespan-of-the-e-petition/</link>
		<comments>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/the-100-day-lifespan-of-the-e-petition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[e-participation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the EuroPetition evaluation process for the report we&#8217;ve just issued, one research question we asked was whether there is an optimum time for closing a petition. I thought I&#8217;d discuss one finding that came out of playing &#8230; <a href="http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/the-100-day-lifespan-of-the-e-petition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=170419&amp;post=1704&amp;subd=spartakan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CfP extended: IADIS e-Democracy conference, Rome July 2011</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/cfp-extended-iadis-e-democracy-conference-rome-july-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/cfp-extended-iadis-e-democracy-conference-rome-july-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This conference aims to encourage and foster efforts of researchers and practitioners by sharing cutting-edge research, innovations, models, theories and strategies that address issues and challenges related to cultivating online communities for grassroots democracy, equity and social justice. This will &#8230; <a href="http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/cfp-extended-iadis-e-democracy-conference-rome-july-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=170419&amp;post=1699&amp;subd=spartakan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Petitions to the European Parliament &#8211; 2009 report</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/petitions-to-the-european-parliament-2009-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finally been able to write some notes from the European Parliament&#8217;s report on petitioning in 2009 &#8211; it was approved 7 June 2010, so really I have no excuse for being so late with this piece. Despite the delay, &#8230; <a href="http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/petitions-to-the-european-parliament-2009-report/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=170419&amp;post=1687&amp;subd=spartakan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Has e-petitioning been &#8216;useless&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/has-e-petitioning-been-useless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;ll use my first blog post of 2011 (Happy New Year by the way) for a quick refresher on (e)petitioning. One of my favourite quotes on the subject of e-petitions is from a letter to the Telegraph of &#8230; <a href="http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/has-e-petitioning-been-useless/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=170419&amp;post=1673&amp;subd=spartakan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Petitioning the old fashioned British way</media:title>
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