Political spin and democracy [BBC]
In his weekly BBC opinion column, Brian Walden considers spin and how it has resulted in politicians losing control of the democratic agenda.Read full story
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Reflecting on Europe’s identity
A series of articles on the current European debate: Meet me in Eumerica for the best of two worlds [International Herald Tribune, 22 June 2005] Grass roots change for Europe (by EU Commissioner Margot Wallström) [International Herald Tribune, 21 June…
Venice goes mobile with Wi-Fi walking tours [Metropolis Magazine]
A collaboration between the Department of Urban Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Architecture Venice (IUAV), the project uses video-equipped cell phones, PDAs, and location-based technology to deliver multimedia walking tours of lesser-known Venetian neighborhoods.…
Connecting the world [International Herald Tribune]
This week, the International Telecommunication Union unveiled the Connect the World initiative, with the double goal to push “digital divide” issues to the top of worldwide policy agendas and to connect all communities worldwide by 2015. Founding members include Alcatel…
The future of European e-government [The Guardian]
Last week was not a great time to unveil a new pan-European initiative. Yet the programme is an important source of funding for IT-based innovations in public services. It is aimed not at putting services online (most already are)…
The relaunch of the Lisbon Agenda and the launch of the 7th Framework Programme on RTD [Bridges, the OST publication]
The main topic in March 2005 was a mid-term review of the ongoing Lisbon agenda, which could lead to a reform of the whole process. It was Europe’s aim to become the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in…
E-culture advisory
“Digital media have not only made in-roads in the way visual artists, musicians, designers, film makers and other cultural practitioners work – they have created a new context”. Michiel Schwarz’s insightful Dutch policy paper on “e-culture”, that has just…
Museum mania in China
The Chinese government intends to build 1,000 new museums across the country by 2015. A scary piece by Elizabeth Casale in The Platform, an e-zine on cultural policy, says that China’s “place-based cultural strategy” is leading to a glut of…
Design for Future Needs
Designers look into the future to meet people’s needs. Design for Future Needs is a research project that discovered how their methods can help policy makers do the same. The 2002 project, run for the EC by a group of…