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		<title>Europe: conservative, cautious or&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/links-for-2009-11-04/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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More negative comparisons with the USA. In Europe&#8217;s defence, I do get the impression that the formal political processes here are more concerned with social inclusion and participation than they are in the USA, and our political processes provide for more than two parties and therefore a wider range of viewpoints, so maybe the issues [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&blog=170419&post=1371&subd=spartakan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Participation and open data</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/links-for-2009-11-02/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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Overview of the subject &#8211; with links and accompanying presentation. All good stuff


Social Strategy Talk: Participation and Open data  :: Lee Bryant &#124; Headshift
Presentation at the Amsterdam Social Strategy Talk, talking about the issue of public participation and open data in relation to government innovation.There were plenty of smart people there, including practitioners from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&blog=170419&post=1364&subd=spartakan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Years of ITC</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Teledemocracy Centre celebrated it&#8217;s 10th Birthday last week. More at our website.
Just think how much this field has changed in the last decade &#8211; I&#8217;m proud to be part of team that has been around to describe, evaluate and help create working e-participation and online engagement systems.
I wonder where we&#8217;ll be in 2019?
&#160;
Posted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&blog=170419&post=1360&subd=spartakan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What problem with e-petitions?</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/what-problem-with-e-petitions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice to see that e-petitions were discussed at the LocalGov Camp Lincoln &#8211; Liz Azyan wrote up a sumary on the Jadu blog. Go and have a look, and admire the diagram she downloaded from this blog. Great to see it being used.
Also have a look at Liz&#8217;s pages too if you&#8217;re interested in Local [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&blog=170419&post=1350&subd=spartakan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A way some companies make money out of open source</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/links-for-2009-10-28/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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Bottom line: keep control of your code, but release versions of it under an opensourc license.


The Commercial Open Source Business Model &#124; Dirk Riehle
Commercial open source software projects are OSS projects that are owned by a single firm that derives a direct and significant revenue stream from the software. Commercial open source at first glance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&blog=170419&post=1347&subd=spartakan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Data standards for ePetitions</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/links-for-2009-10-26/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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Says it all &#8211; this is a golden opportunity to get the groundwork in place for standards that can be applied in England and then across Europe where e-petitioning is adopted &#8211; eg using the EuroPetition system.


FutureGov » Features » ePetitions data standards &#8211; get involved!
Andy Gibson is working with Futuregov and Particitech to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&blog=170419&post=1341&subd=spartakan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CfP: JITP2010 &#8211; Politics of Open Source</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/cfp-jitp2010-politics-of-open-source/</link>
		<comments>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/cfp-jitp2010-politics-of-open-source/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 6-7, 2010 &#8211; Amherst, Massachusetts
Political issues closely tied to the free and open source software movement(s) include: national government policies related to the adoption of open source technologies or questions related to interoperability and open standards, software patents, vendor lock-in, and copyright. These are central themes we expect may be discussed in this forum. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&blog=170419&post=1336&subd=spartakan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Knitting my social network apps together</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/knitting-my-social-network-apps-together/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit of navel gazing…
I&#8217;ve been a fairly cautious user of social networking tools, but despite that, I have now accumulated WordPress (obviously), Twitter and Delicious accounts (as well as the Facebook account that I prefer to use for bits of my personal life, though work has seeped in there too).
I create messages and content [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&blog=170419&post=1323&subd=spartakan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CFP: 10th European Conference on e-Government ECEG 2010</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/links-for-2009-10-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conference in Dublin 27-28 June 2008 (Abstract submissions by 30 November)
The conference committee welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics using a range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods. Action research, case studies and work-in-progress/posters are welcomed approaches. PhD Research, proposals for roundtable discussions, non-academic contributions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spartakan.wordpress.com&blog=170419&post=1317&subd=spartakan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three counter-intuitive opinion pieces</title>
		<link>http://spartakan.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/links-for-2009-10-19/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cruickshank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first has been doing the rounds of the blogosphere &#8211; raises interesting questions on what should be transparent (govovernment data) and not (private diaries) &#8211; but what about about drawing the boundary line? In the end, transparency is no substitute for (uncorrupt!) democratic control, I reckon:


Against Transparency &#124; Lawrence Lessig &#124; The New Republic
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