ur DB:s blogg, t ex "Danmarks Biblioteksforening har lanceret ideen om at biblioteker i samtlige landets kommuner er med til at lave Danmarks Største Vælgermøde den 26. okt. kl 19.30."
Due to the immense interest that this question has posed, we thought we might as well answer it: we do not want to feed paranoia and senseless New World Order conspiracies. Some of you were smart enough to find the registration details, and some of you looked closely enough to find one of the actual members out of the large group that planned the page. Paulina Arcos, who figures as the owner of the domain, is the name of the mother of this member. We used her credit card to purchase the domain in July.
Kaisa Eskola, Joonas Pekkanen, open source, transparency
"Kaisa Eskola 30th May 2016
"The EU-funded D-CENT project develops next generation tools for online democracy and participation. In Helsinki, the piloting has focused on creating ways for citizens to follow the decision making process of the City of Helsinki."
This year the City of Helsinki is rethinking its approach to citizen participation and bottom-up citizen empowerment. The D-CENT project has impacted the roadmap of current e-participation tools in Helsinki by creating open processes, tools, code, and standards. The public beta of the democracy tool developed as part of the D-CENT Helsinki pilot has now been launched as Decisions Helsinki"
by RUTH W. GRANT, Duke University, and ROBERT O. KEOHANE
Princeton University
"Debates about globalization have centered on calls to improve accountability to limit abuses of power in world politics. How should we think about global accountability in the absence of global democracy? Who should hold whom to account and according to what standards? Thinking clearly about these questions requires recognizing a distinction, evident in theories of accountability at the nation-state level, between “participation” and “delegation” models of accountability. The distinction
helps to explain why accountability is so problematic at the global level and to clarify alternative possibilities for pragmatic improvements in accountability mechanisms globally. We identify seven types of accountability mechanisms and consider their applicability to states, NGOs, multilateral organizations, multinational corporations, and transgovernmental networks. By disaggregating the problem in this
way, we hope to identify opportunities for improving protections against abuses of power at the global level."
In March 2014, ALTER-EU and its supporter organisations, including Corporate Europe Observatory, will launch a campaign to demand that candidates in the upcoming European elections “stand-up for citizens and democracy against the excessive lobbying influence of banks and big business”.
In addition to an emphasis on competitive sports, the making of the American voter continues with biased curricula affirming his country can do no wrong. The historical claim that the United States is ‘exceptional’ is newly buttressed by the assertion that it is ‘the indispensable nation’. Politicians warn ominously that “If we don’t ‘step up to the plate’ no one else will”, in a harmless-sounding reference to baseball, where each pitcher in turn steps up to the ‘plate’ marking the spot from which he must throw the ball.
n The Net Delusion, by Evgeny Morozov, we finally have a long-overdue market correction to cyber-utopianism, which Morozov defines as “a naïve belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to acknowledge its do
Åsa Linderborg om ett journalistiskt experiment
Visa alla bilderKvällsposten och GT lägger ner sina kulturredaktioner. De genererar inte tillräckligt många klick, säger GT:s chefredaktör Frida Boisen.
"Var tredje lokalredaktion har försvunnit de senaste tio åren och fler är att vänta, enligt en rapport från Södertörn. Två säregna redaktioner - kultur och ledare - försvann. Bonniers och med dem den liberala hegemonin stärkte ytterligare greppet.
Kulturminister Alice Bah Kuhnkes första åtgärd måste vara att tillsätta en haverikommission vid sidan av en mediautredning. Det är mer än ett bogvisir som har lossnat. Hela demokratin är på väg ner i djupet och vi med den."
Problemet med kärnvapenspridning är av sådan dignitet att det måste bli föremål för partiövergripande och långsiktiga beslut i Sveriges Riksdag. Vi tror att det är möjligt för riksdagen att fatta brett förankrade beslut om detta, och ser fram mot ett konk
"Förändringen hänger ihop med två insikter. Människan insåg dels att man kan ta ut skatt, dels att man kan överföra härskarens makt till andra. Byråkrati och skatt har gjort oss till de vi är i dag. Även om vi innerst inne är samma gamla samlarapa." - Las