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elleeseymour: August 2006
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Monday, August 7, 2006. Goodbye blogger, hello WordPress. Please come and find me at my very smart new site http:/ elleeseymour.com. And update your RSS readers to http:/ elleeseymour.com/feed/. All my past posts and your comments have been transferred to the new site where normal service has been resumed! I've still got to sort out my blogroll and a few other tiny details, but wanted to get this launched before I go off on hols at the end of the week. Cheque book journalism shoud be banned. I'm not sure...
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Election Modernization: Looking Ahead to 2008 | The Symposium Weblog
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2006 International e-Participation and Local Democracy Symposium. Election Modernization: Looking Ahead to 2008. August 8, 2006. Posted by Griff Wigley in Audio. With online elections getting quite a bit of buzz – and internet campaigning continually evolving, this session looked at what will be modernized and what still needs improvement in the world of e-Voting. Alan Winchcombe, Head of Electoral Services at Swindon Borough Council. 8 minutes, 22 seconds. Linda Lamone, Maryland State Board of Elections.
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The Public Forum Institute in Baltimore | The Symposium Weblog
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2006 International e-Participation and Local Democracy Symposium. The Public Forum Institute in Baltimore. August 6, 2006. Posted by Griff Wigley in Baltimore symposium. The Public Forum Institute. Was a partner for the Symposium and in Baltimore, they took over all the tech tasks for all the presentations. L to R: Jonathan Ortmans and Mark Marich, Mark and Jeff Jendel, and Jonathan. Click photos to enlarge. They also deployed their eForum audience response system. Which, as described on their website,.
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elleeseymour: Govt also paid towards jaunt to Budapest
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Sunday, August 6, 2006. Govt also paid towards jaunt to Budapest. At the same time that Defra officials enjoyed a three-day waste disposal junket. In Germany, the Government helped fund a trip for local politicians to Budapest to learn about blogging and e-democracy. Where they stayed in a sumptious 5-star hotel. It was an international event which included the Mayor of Washington as a speaker. Among those who attended from the UK was Oxford Labour councillor Antonia Bance. I was invited to go on a bursa...
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Closing remarks | The Symposium Weblog
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2006 International e-Participation and Local Democracy Symposium. August 8, 2006. Posted by Griff Wigley in Audio. United Nations Department for Economic and Social. Affairs Senior Inter-Regional Advisor on e-Government. Cllr Matthew Ellis, Deputy leader of Lichfield Borough Council. And member of Staffordshire County Council. Dylan Jeffrey, Department for Communities and Local Government. United Kingdom and Symposium Director. 7 minutes, 57 seconds. Mary Reid’s Blog. Recent comments to blog posts.
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Baltimore dinner, Symposium thank yous | The Symposium Weblog
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2006 International e-Participation and Local Democracy Symposium. Baltimore dinner, Symposium thank yous. August 8, 2006. Posted by Griff Wigley in Baltimore symposium. Symposium Director Dylan Jeffrey spoke at the end-of-day dinner and handed out small gifts of appreciation to those colleagues who helped work on the Symposium. August 9, 2006. There was a glitch where all thumbnail photos linked to the DLG website instead of the larger size photos. Thanks, Mary Reid, for spotting it! August 9, 2006.
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Aspiring to the Global Possibilities | The Symposium Weblog
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2006 International e-Participation and Local Democracy Symposium. Aspiring to the Global Possibilities. August 6, 2006. Posted by Griff Wigley in Audio. Jonathan Ortmans, President of Public Forum Institute. Led participants through a process of identifying what is possible for the e-Democracy field for the future, specifically:. 8220;What could we do together? What should we be aspiring to achieve? 3 minutes, 27 seconds. 6 minutes, 2 seconds. Mary Reid’s Blog. Recent comments to blog posts. On Vote for ...
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Matthew Ellis interview in eGov Monitor | The Symposium Weblog
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2006 International e-Participation and Local Democracy Symposium. Matthew Ellis interview in eGov Monitor. August 7, 2006. Posted by Griff Wigley in ICELE. EGov Monitor has a Q&A interview. Published today with Councillor Matthew Ellis, Chair of the International Centre of Excellence for Local eDemocracy. Cllr Ellis explores the local Democracy project (ICELE) and discusses the impact he would like the project to have on British democracy and tackling public apathy towards political engagement.
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Conference Engagement | The Symposium Weblog
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2006 International e-Participation and Local Democracy Symposium. July 27, 2006. Posted by dylanjeffrey in Commentary. By the way, check the photos out on this page done taken by storming Wriggly Wigley to check out who’s here and spot the sad person attending (so far I have not found a single one! July 27, 2006. Thank you for the audios. Will we have the texts somewhere on the site of the Symposium? July 30, 2006. And I’ll make sure these are recorded for the 2007 planning. Thanks! August 16, 2006.
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Innovative Ideas to Stir Citizens | The Symposium Weblog
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2006 International e-Participation and Local Democracy Symposium. Innovative Ideas to Stir Citizens. August 8, 2006. Posted by Griff Wigley in Audio. This session explored ideas for engaging the large number of individuals who do not fully participate in the democratic process. Steven Clift, Board Chair, E-Democracy.Org. 2 minutes, 0 seconds (introductory comments). 4 minutes, 58 seconds (pre-discussion comments). Director, Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, George Washington University.