http://www.europetition.eu Site News daily 1 2008-11-21T11:12:21Z http://www.europetition.eu/news/commission-european-citizens-initiative-website Commission ECI website & support tools & services, launched at http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/welcome ECIs will go live on 1 April 2012. No publisher johnoflaherty 2012-01-26T10:37:07Z News Item http://www.europetition.eu/news/white-house-seeking-input-on-e-participation What are the most effective forms of technology and web tools to encourage public participation, engage with the private sector/non-profit and academic communities, and provide the public with greater and more meaningful opportunities to influence agencies’ plans? - before 3 Jan 2012 at http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/06/seeking-your-input-us-open-government-national-action-plan No publisher johnoflaherty 2011-12-09T15:53:25Z News Item http://www.europetition.eu/news/white-house-launching-e-petitioning-website We the People: Announcing White House Petitions & How They Work, from the White House Blog. No publisher johnoflaherty 2011-09-01T14:35:13Z News Item http://www.europetition.eu/news/initial-2011-meeting-of-the-w3c-egovernment The W3C eGov Interest Group are restarting meetings for this group and welcome participation. The group is open to all those interested in the advocacy, adoption, and standards of eGovernment. No publisher johnoflaherty 2011-08-22T10:32:59Z News Item http://www.europetition.eu/news/2011-knight-news-eparticipation-challenge-winners 16 projects that the Knight Foundation has selected as winners of the fifth Knight News Challenge are announced. See http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2011/6/22/announcing-2011-knight-news-challenge-winners/ No publisher johnoflaherty 2011-06-24T16:19:02Z News Item http://www.europetition.eu/news/mysociety-evaluation-reports-published mySociety have put out a pair of "warts-and-all" detailed looks at two of their core websites. No publisher johnoflaherty 2011-06-20T12:20:55Z News Item http://www.europetition.eu/news/participatory-budgeting-recife-brazil-wins-the Over the past four weeks, 11,600 citizens in Germany were invited to select the winner for the Reinhard Mohn Prize 2011 for democracy and participation, out of the 7 finalists. Voting is now over and the winner has been selected. See www.vitalizing-democracy.org No publisher joflaherty 2011-04-01T15:22:03Z News Item http://www.europetition.eu/news/petities.nl-is-adapting-the-open-epetitions-data Based on the ePetitions Open Data Standards defined in the UK, Petities.nl is implementing an opne API that will allow interaction with EuroPetition and other ePetitioning/ECI systems. No publisher joflaherty 2011-03-23T13:18:43Z News Item http://www.europetition.eu/news/more-eu-citizens-benefitting-from-online-public More people across the EU now have access to public services online, according to Europe's 9th e-Government Benchmark Report released today. The average availability of online public services in the EU went up from 69% to 82% from 2009 to 2010. Putting more Government services online helps cut costs for public administrations and also reduces red tape for businesses and citizens. The report reveals the best and worst performers in the EU, focusing on two essential public services: 'finding a job' and 'starting a company'. No publisher joflaherty 2011-02-21T17:05:19Z News Item http://www.europetition.eu/news/europetition-evaluation-report-published Pilot trials in 5 Member State Clusters of17 Local Authorities and 8m citizens, found that the EU-wide multilingual EuroPetitioning service is successful in improving peititoning of the European Parliament and as a platform for European Citizens Initiatives. No publisher joflaherty 2011-04-06T13:32:54Z News Item http://www.europetition.eu/news/European-Parliament-and-Council-reach-agreement-on Today the Implementation Regulation for European Citizens' Initiatives (ECI) was finalised. For the first time this will allow citizens to directly suggest new EU legislation. An innovation contained in the Lisbon Treaty, the ECI will allow at least one million citizens from at least one quarter of EU Member States to invite the European Commission to bring forward legislative proposals in areas where the Commission has the power to do so. The organisers of a Citizens' Initiative, a citizens' committee composed of at least seven citizens who are residents of at least seven different Member States, will have one year to collect signatures and the Commission will have three months to examine an initiative and decide how to act on it. On request of the Council, the legislation on the European Citizens' Initiative will start applying only one year after it is published in the Official Journal, meaning that the first initiatives can be considered from early 2012. No publisher joflaherty 2010-12-15T17:11:48Z News Item http://www.europetition.eu/news/inca10-competition-on-inclusive-society-now-open The INCA (Innovative and Creative Application) Award is an open competition for developers, encouraging them to build applications which are both “cool and useful”. Winners will receive a prize in money as well as visibility across Europe and at the awards ceremony during the iMinds conference (December 16th 2010). www.inca-award.eu No publisher joflaherty 2010-10-22T16:16:32Z News Item http://www.europetition.eu/news/consultation-institute-launches-the-directory-of-e The aim of the Directory is to provide UK local authorities with a reference point for e-petition software suppliers. At present there is no source where local authorities can see, first, who the suppliers are that sell e-petition software and, second, a place to compare the suppliers and their offerings side by side. No publisher joflaherty 2010-09-16T12:52:12Z News Item http://www.europetition.eu/news/call-for-papers-international-journal-of Special Issue on: "(Re)Creating Public Sphere, Civic Culture and Civic Engagement: Public Service Media vs. Online Social Networks" Guest Editors: Prof. Petros Iosifidis, City University London, UK Prof. Michael Meimaris, University of Athens, Greece No publisher joflaherty 2010-07-26T15:41:51Z News Item http://www.europetition.eu/news/funded-phd-studentships-at-edinburgh-napier Applications are invited from candidates who would like to undertake a three-year funded PhD studentship within the Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation at Edinburgh Napier University. The Institute comprises five research centres, of which the Centre for Social Informatics is one (http://www.csi.soc.napier.ac.uk/). No publisher joflaherty 2010-07-16T18:59:10Z News Item