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I recently foun out about the eGovernment MONITOR, published 2011 by the initiative of D21 and fortiss ipima, a collaboration of the Technical University of Munich and its affiliated institute. The eGovernment Monitor was released on the 29 September 2011 as part of the Open Government Camp 2011, the survey has been... [read more]
Charlemagne, the Economist’s Europe correspondent, analyses the reasons for the centre-left’s poor performance in Europe. It’s not immigration, he thinks, but globalisation: I am not saying immigration is not out there somewhere in this debate: I think it is there as part of a bigger sense of anger, unease and confusion caused by the... [read more]
This weekend’s European Parliament election has produced, overall, a swing to the centre-right (although, with the British Conservatives splitting the centre-right into two Euro-parties, the overall EPP-ED numbers have actually fallen). This is, though, a very broad picture, averaged out across 27 member states. The overall impression I... [read more]
Another article complaining about the de-Europeanisation of the European elections. This time it’s Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a Green, writing a piece called The Rape of Europa in Libération. Key quotes (my translation) If it were a bank, it would be a hold-up. If it were a person, it would be a rape. In those cases, at least, that’s what the... [read more]
Another vote-matching site for the Euro elections launched last night. In a Ronseal-based naming strategy, it’s called VoteMatch, and it suggests which party you should vote for based on the views you express on certain big issues. I wish it well, and hope it increases turnout among the unsure, but it is interesting to see that the... [read more]
European elections are coming up. In le Monde Sylvie Goulard, a candidate for the Democratic Movement (centrist pro-European party like the LibDems) has written about how the political class is ignoring them: By accident, or by design, something is being undermined in front of our eyes. Despite fine words affirming the indispensability... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
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Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
I understand that there's always a need to experiment for new design to make it better but they also keep in mind that the more they add details, the more they make it complicated. The CFPB, which opened up for business last summer, said Wednesday that it will next be going after loan providers ...
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Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It ...