iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session XI.
Round Table: Chairs: Jacinto Lajas
Jose María Olmo
Free Software penetration in the Administration still low. This also means (cause or consequence?) that bidding processes don’t usually include free software in their requirements, either as a condition or as a possibility.
Consequences of this situation:
Lack of cooperation and collaboration between administrations
Interoperability made more difficult
There is a lack of communities of free software for the Administration in which developers and users can meet and exchange impressions and design common strategies
Francisco Huertas
Free Software as a strategy to develop the Information Society.
Free Software avoids:
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session X.
Round Table: Chairs: Goyo Tovar
Antonio Fumero
The Web: technologies, people and content. The Web brings potential, but using it is another issue. And in using it, context matters.
Ícaro Moyano
Age is a clear limit of Web 2.0.
Three stages of the web:
The web as a journal: unidirectional
The web as media: everyone’s a journalist
The web as a sharing place
New Internet users no longer identify themselves with a nickname, but with their real names, including a snapshot of their own.
And it seems that youngsters, that are usually said not being interested in politics, do use Social Networking Sites to engage in activism and promote campaigns.
Marc Vidal
Are the limits of the...
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session IX
Debate: The Handbook of the blog in the enterprise.Chairs: César Ramos
Genís Roca
We should focus on what is an enterprise and not on blogs. Do we agree on what do we understand by “enterprise”? An enterprise is:
the acknowledged and legal way to have a personal adventure.
A temporal union of people around an interest
An interest group
An institution: a big telecom is like a ministry, and a ministry like an enterprise.
There are many enterprises: working for your own or employed, with or without employees, with or without workmates, with or without leadership, with or without partners, etc.
Blogging in the enterprise is easy when you’re alone (e.g....
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session VII.
Round Table: Networked Citizens. Whence do blogs go?Chairs: Pau Llop
Víctor Ruiz
Blogs come from the participative sites that flourished after the Slashdot experience, both technically and conceptually.
Blogs have been an evolution of forums, but only at the usability level, but the general idea has not really changed that much.
And like forums, they are of short reach. Only 6% of the population read political blogs… but we keep telling politicians that they have to be on the Net and have their own blog. Does this make any sense at all? When everyone has a blog (if that ever happens), will we at last make of them an influential tool?
Fernando Tricas
Some questions about...
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session V.
Round Table: Connected Citizens. Cyberactivism.Chairs: Rosa Jiménez Cano
Alana Moceri, president Democrats Abroad Spain
First time that primary elections can be done on-line. This means increasing the number of countries where voting is possible from 34 up to 161.
Online, everyone can contribute: absolutely everyone can upload videos to YouTube, photos to Flickr or text to any blog. Pro: democratization. Con: loss of control over your campaing.
Fundrising is key and is a good proxy to test the health of a political campaign.
Obama’s discourse is really 2.0: you can, empowerment, engagement. MyBarackObama.com is a good example of it, where you can even earn points as a...
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session IV.
Round Table: mGovernment. The Mobile Phone and its integration in e-GovernmentChairs: Nacho Campos
What is a mobile phone
Mobile
A device you use every day
110% of penetration
Many features
Tomy Ahonen: the mobile phone is the 7th medium:
Personal
Always on
Always with us
Integrated paying method
Immediate tool
mGovernment: how the Administration adapts itself to the nomadic style of the citizen (The Economist)
Goal: from m-murmur to m-chat to m-conversation (unidirectional, bidirectional, multidirectional).
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Lack of leadership, political and technical
Infrastructures
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session III.
Case Study: Gijón. The Connected CityChairs: Chiqui de la Fuente
José M. Pérez
The political role is fundamental in the process of change.
Active listening is crucial, and it’s very important to avoid the “Big Brother” paranoia in order to let information flow free. Only with absolute openness can the Administration make its information interact with the citizen’s. Interconnection requires openness and access to private information — not the same thing as surveillance. This can be made possible by making public the “what” but anonymizing the “by whom”.
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session II.
Round Table: Innovation and Change. Is it possible to make the citizen’s life easier?Chairs: Jose Antonio Donaire
Xavier Llinares Sala
Users and managers don’t usually think equally concerning the design, use and satisfaction of a specific service.
To make ends meet, some changes have to take place:
There are too many public servants… in exchange of better, up-to-date, adding-value ones.
Public servants that add value have to be rewarded.
Barriers have to be removed.
More management, less bureaucracy.
Politics have to be de-professionalized and put, instead, professionals. Politics not as a career, but as a place for real experts to bring in ideas.
The shift...
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session I (part II).
Opening Session (part II)
Chairs Carmen Sánchez-Carazo
Intelligent CitiesJosé Gumersindo García
ICTs will improve the image that public administrations have before the citizenry: proximity, transparency, etc.
e-Administration and Modernization go hand in hand and they are co-requisites for the development of both.
The Public Sector does have to bet on digital literacy training for their public servants. But not only their employees, but also firms. With this digital literacy many projects can take place: instant messaging for better communication, datasharing through wireless networks, e-commerce, etc.
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These are the materials I’m using at the iCities: Primeras Jornadas sobre Blogs, e-Government y Participación Digital [First Conference on Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation], for the opening speech, in which I take part on Friday 9th May 2008.
Slides:
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Castells, M. (2004). “Informationalism, Networks, And The Network Society: A Theoretical Blueprint”. In Castells, M. (Ed.), The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Dutta, S., López-Claros, A. & Mia, I. (Eds.) (2006). Global Information Technology Report 2005-2006: Leveraging ICT for...
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There is a constant buzz on the importance of blogs as both proxies for the freedom of speech in one country and also as the paradigmatic tool for citizen participation, activism, advocacy and so on. But, what’s the reality behind this (strong) statement? Is it just the mad dream of an enlightened digerati, or is there some truth in blogs politically empowering the citizenry?
These are some of the questions behind iCities: Primeras Jornadas sobre Blogs, e-Government y Participación Digital [First Conference on Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation]. Preparing the opening speech, which I impart on Friday 9th May 2008, I found some interesting things.
Even if data have to be taken with maximum care and minimum work was performed on the statistical apparatus, it does seem that...