EDem10: Ismael Peña-López. Goverati: e-Aristocrats or the delusion of e-Democracy

Notes from the EDem10 — 4th International Conference on eDemocracy 2010, at the Danube-University Krems, and held in Krems, Austria, on May 6th and 7th, 2010. More notes on this event: edem10.

Goverati: e-Aristocrats or the delusion of e-Democracy
Ismael Peña-López, Open University of Catalonia

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@parycek‘s tweets on the session:

  • digital productive system – information is free and cheap and knowledge is easy to transmit = cost no more an issue
  • but deliberation needs time to come together for deliberation, same to negotiation nut also these hurdels are vanishing
  • weclome to real time politics without gatekeeping agencies
  • example from spain: http://www.conmidinero.com/
  • more complex example for eu polocies http://www.feseuropa.cat
  • biggest problem digital divide! as we also discussed with @andy_williamson
  • 1/3 doesn’t use 1/3 use it not regulary so tere is only 1/3 with which we could engage but only about 8% have the potential
  • e-politics divide! all in all it leads to echo chamber – book: http://goo.gl/QS9s

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EDEm10 - 4th International Conference on eDemocracy (2010)