This week: Open Daka Kosovo showcases its many apps that improve democracy; A coder puts ICE on notice; and the g0v model comes to Hong Kong. 1. Spotlighting the groundbreaking work of Open Data Kosovo The Kosovar capital of Pristina. Image courtesy of Wikimedia. Blerta Thaci, Executive Director of Open Data Kosovo (ODK) and founder of Girls […]
The advent of the Internet, the ICTs and the collective intelligence enabled by them point to the rise of a networked democracy that promises, among other things, the protagonism of the common citizen in relation to the State and to the distribution of power. In recent years, there have been a number of initiatives in […]
This post originally appeared on European Alternatives Today’s challenges, from the flight from war-refugees to the management of the commons, and the environmental crisis, are being tackled at the local level from some City Councils across Europe. Some cities are proving to be spaces with an outstanding capacity to confront and face reality with reachable […]
Anna Bergren Miller: When the City Council of Barcelona asked democracy activist and researcher Mayo Fuster Morell for policy recommendations regarding the sharing economy, she suggested that the City Council take a different approach: Rather than relying on an expert to dictate policy from the top down, why not use a collaborative process to build a […]