Biblioteken runtom i Finland utvecklar operativa modeller med hjälp av vilka biblioteken kan fungera som plattformar för deltagande, möten och en trygg diskussion. I riksdagens budgetbehandling anvisades en miljon euro för vidareutveckling och spridning av koncepten i statsbudgeten för nästa år.
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."
The Panthers' Capitol 'invasion' all came about as a result of an American racial divide that existed 50 years ago and in some measure continues today.
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From e-books about participatory budgeting to case studies of successful citizen engagement initiatives, here's everything you need to get started with digital democracy.
The collection and analysis of data is changing the way economies operate. Are these changes so fundamental that they can be said to have led to the emergence of a new form of capitalism – surveillance capitalism? If people’s behaviour is made increasingly transparent, do we become a society in which trust is no longer necessary? Are individuals a mere appendage to the digital machine, objects of new mechanisms which reward and punish according to the determinations of private capital? How is social cohesion affected when people become dispensable as a labour force, while their data continues to provide function as a source of value in lucrative new markets that trade in predictions of human behaviour? How should we understand the new quality of power that arises from these unprecedented conditions? What kind of society does it aim to create? And what ramifications will these developments have for the principles of liberal democracy? Will privacy law and anti-trust law be enough? How can we tame what we do not yet understand?
The Fantasyland of ‘The Spirit Level’ and the Limitations of the Health and Well-Being Industry. After years of the Thatcherite free market rhetoric has The Spirit Level turned things round? Not surprisingly things are a little less clear-cut than the thesis put forward by the authors. Essay by Gerry Hassan in Open Democracy 2010
he EU has failed its citizens. It runs amok directed by Germany’s ossified and frail leader Angela Merkel, and a political class that primarily values its own entitlement.
S. Rodotä. The Information Society: Innovation, Legitimacy, Ethics and Democracy, 233, стр. 17-26. Boston, Mass., International Federation for Information Processing, Springer, (2007)
J. Lamla, B. Büttner, C. Ochs, F. Pittroff, и M. Uhlmann. Die Zukunft von Privatheit und Selbstbestimmung. Analysen und Empfehlungen zum Schutz der Grundrechte in der digitalen Welt, Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden, (2021)