The concept of e-democracy dates from the early days of Internet. To my understanding, it embraces everything that connects political processes and the web. Back in the 90s high promises were linked to the web and its implications for democracy and participation. One early example is the Electronic Town Hall, but nowadays e-democracy stands for [...]
From the monthly archives:
July 2007
This week I selected some interesting articles on African countries and information and communication technologies.
Mobile Phone Reporters in Africa
White African has an interesting blog post on Africa’s Voices experiment on mobile phone reporters.
For Ugandan Farmers, Agricultural Tips Just a Phone Call Away
An example for a project, which offers a text message service for farming methods. [...]
This blog explores worldwide social innovations and how people benefit from infor- mation and communication technologies. 