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jean lievens
January 23, 2015 3:45 PM
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With the prospect of a Syriza government, everyone is wondering what the future holds for Greece. Whether disaster or deliverance, or just the normal chaos, it is hard to ignore the potential for game-changing repercussions from a Syriza government. On the street however, embittered by the failures of governments in the past to change a corrupt and dysfunctional political system, few people are expecting big things from Syriza. The feeling of popular cynicism and fatalism is palpable. How different will Syriza be?
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jean lievens
October 22, 2014 6:06 AM
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Within the open government debate, there is growing interest in the role of technology in citizen engagement. However, as interest in the subject grows, so does the superficiality of the conversations that follow. While the number of citizen engagement and technology events is increasing, the opportunities for in-depth conversations on the subject do not seem to be increasing at the same rate.
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jean lievens
September 19, 2014 6:23 PM
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Sunlight is thrilled to mark Global Legislative Openness Week with our global legislative transparency campaign, which culminated earlier this week in a joint letter from the world’s parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs) sent to national legislatures across the globe.
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jean lievens
July 3, 2014 4:19 PM
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Here’s a very special treat. Originally published on Guerrilla Translation, Movimiento por la Democracia´s “Charter for Democracy” stands out as premier example of citizen-led solution making to the various crises we face. It is a constitution for the commons written by commons.
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jean lievens
May 26, 2014 1:53 PM
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The words “hacker” and activity of “hacking” have been receiving a great deal of attention over the past few years, in the wake of data breaches, Wikileaks, the Anonymous and LulzSec groups, and now the “Shady Rat” cyberespionage revelations. Given that it’s being reported as the biggest hacking attack ever, the attention is merited.
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jean lievens
December 25, 2013 2:30 AM
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A very special interview between sustainable community expert and “business provocateur” John Thackaray and our very own Michel Bauwens.
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jean lievens
November 29, 2013 11:49 AM
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This is from the official announcement on my cooperation with this great and important project, which aims to create transition policies for the Ecuadorian people and government:
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jean lievens
November 13, 2013 1:15 AM
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One of the privileges of our work in the Transparency and Accountability initiative is the opportunity to bring together experts from every sector working on opening government.
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jean lievens
October 18, 2013 4:32 PM
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In his talk last July at Open Government Melbourne Meetup, Donnie Maclurcan explains why Not for profits will take over For profits and change the game. To relate to Michel’s notion of ‘For benefit’, and the recent post on cooperative accumulation. These are the highlights of the talk:
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jean lievens
October 2, 2013 4:30 PM
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The term “open data” has been making headlines since the G8 leaders’ recent signature of an Open Data Charter of Principles in Ireland. Harper was one of the leaders to sign said Charter and commit to a set of common standards for publicly accessible data. It was only hours after that the Canadian federal government publicly re-launched a newly designed open data portal for the first time in 3 years…but what exactly is open data?
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jean lievens
September 20, 2013 5:09 PM
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In the first semester of 2014, Bauwens will assist in setting up a global network of transition researchers. The P2P Foundation is a global network of researchers that is documenting the shift towards open, participatory and commons-oriented practices in every domain of human activity, but especially also the shift from collaboration on open knowledge and code, towards cooperation in open design, open hardware, open science, open government, and the shift towards open agricultural and open machining practices that have great potential for increasing the productivity and sustainability of farming and industrial processes.
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jean lievens
November 6, 2014 1:36 PM
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On October 30, 2014, lead researcher, Gustavo Magalhaes and co-author Laura Manley presented their research paper “Business Models for Open Government Data” at the 8th Annual International Conferences on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV) in Guimarães, Portugal. This year, the conference focused on the Rise of Data Post-2015: Empowered Citizens, Accountable Institutions.
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jean lievens
October 16, 2014 4:47 PM
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“Marketing guru Philip Kotler wrote that “the costumer will judge the offering by three basic elements: product features and quality, services mix and quality, and price. All three elements must be meshed into a competitively attractive offering.” It might sound obscene to some that I strongly believe there is much that the Left could take from this sort of advice.”
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jean lievens
August 25, 2014 3:34 PM
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jean lievens
June 3, 2014 6:30 PM
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The wheels of progress often grind slowly, except during revolutionary periods. Who would argue that we don’t live in such a world today?
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jean lievens
May 24, 2014 5:01 PM
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jean lievens
December 5, 2013 1:18 AM
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Speaking via prerecorded video at the GovInnovate conference in Canberra last week, Minister Turnbull issued an unequivocal call to action to the Australian Public Service to improve the quantity of government services delivered online, and enrich their quality, depth and level of engagement with citizens.
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jean lievens
November 26, 2013 12:54 AM
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The Open Government Partnership (OGP)—which held its most recent summit about three weeks ago—has made tremendous progress in its two years of existence. The OGP, a voluntary partnership between governments and civil society, aims to make governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. Discussions at the summit made it clear that the partnership is already demonstrating impact. Sixty-two governments have now joined OGP, making 1,115 commitments to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance.
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jean lievens
October 18, 2013 4:41 PM
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This essay is partially in response to Whither government regulation in a highly complex age? which questions the ability of a hollowed-out, privatized government to effectively cope with the increasing complexity of social and environmental crises such as global warming. What follows assumes some prior familiarity with the basic ideas of p2p culture.
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jean lievens
October 7, 2013 2:01 PM
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jean lievens
September 30, 2013 10:43 AM
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“Regardless, the biggest difference between the new Net parties and the old is something else: their open program. Both the Pirate Party and Partido de Internet have very specific objectives regarding Internet freedom, free licenses and participatory democracy. And Equo doesn’t try to hide its green face. The Candidatura d´Unitat Popular (CUP) – a Net-born Catalonian Party – defines itself as “Anticapitalist, Separatist Left”. Despite this, Net parties are, above all, open processes. They are also, by choice, unfinished mechanisms. The aim is to create platforms, protocols and tools that can employed by others. Anyone can use the mechanism, regardless of the content created with it.”
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jean lievens
September 10, 2013 1:15 PM
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Allowing for creativity, social complexity and uncertainty in public governance.
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