The United States is behind the wall of secrecy surrounding global trade talks to combat counterfeiting, say EU policy sources, who claim that American officials are refusing to let their European counterparts publish the draft agreement online.
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EurActiv on 2nd Sep 2010 (via euractiv.com)
The Hansard Society has a new report out which asks the public what they want out of politicians and the political system online. Although many studies have looked at what politicians do or don’t do online, those looking at what the public actually wants are rather rarer. That makes this a particularly welcome report and is
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 16th Feb 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
Foreign Affairs online is a comprehensive directory of web resources covering all aspects of international relations and foreign affairs which is maintained by academic researcher Dr Robert Beck. It is arranged by subject categories which include: United States government, international relations, human rights and the United Nations. Each section contains links to key government sites, colleges, p...
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Intute on 24th Jul 2008 (via intute.ac.uk)
UK online centres says that as more and more public services move online, the 17 million people in the UK who remain off-line could be missing out on important information and the convenience of online applications.
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PublicTechnology on 31st Mar 2009 (via publictechnology.net)
The Office of Fair Trading and Get Safe Online have joined forces to urge internet users to be vigilant against online fraudsters as recent research shows that online scams are on the increase.
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PublicTechnology on 11th Feb 2009 (via publictechnology.net)
To the Hansard Society website in search of the new Report on MPs Online: Connecting with Constituents , without huge expectations following on from the Hazel Blears "Cynical Nihilistic Political Bloggers" nonsense (*). Oooh. Look. They are having an event with Mark Pack, Jonathon Isaby and Derek Draper about online campaigning. Good.
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TheWardmanWire on 24th Feb 2009 (via mattwardman.com)
In an unusual move, the European Parliament is set to vote on two different reports regarding online gambling next month. A minority of MEPs strongly disagree that member states should be allowed to regulate online gambling, calling for internal market rules on freedom of services to be applied instead.
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EurActiv on 16th Feb 2009 (via euractiv.com)
The UK government urges Scottish public bodies to continue using newspapers for notices, rather than only publishing online.
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BBCPolitics on 9th Nov 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
This site is maintained by the Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Library. It provides free access to an online exhibition which showcases examples of titles published for children by radical American activists. They include Young World Books series issued by International Publishers, an organ of the Communist Party of the United States of America, titles by Lois Lenski as wel...
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Intute on 20th Aug 2008 (via intute.ac.uk)
From SNP Tactical Voting: Scotland's first online newspaper is now live... Caledonian Mercury, billing itself as Scotland's first online newspaper, is now available to be viewed and presumably off and running. The Politics section seems to be manned chiefly by Hamish MacDonnell and contains some excellent articles already. Stewart Kirkpatrick, editor of the online publication, is clearly enthusias...
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MiserableOldFart on 25th Jan 2010 (via miserableoldfart.blogspot.com)
Regular readers of my posts about online politics will know my scepticism of the extent to which online fundraising can work in the UK on the same scale as it does in the US (e.g. because there’s a different attitude towards supporting causes by giving money rather than time in the US and because in
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 1st May 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
