On Tuesday March 10th, the European Parliament adopted with a large majority (526 votes in favour, 108 against and 59 abstentions) a report by European Conservatives and Reformists MEP Morten Messerschmidt on EU Competition Policy, including the EU’s competition investigation into Google, and the ongoing investigation surrounding tax practices in certain EU member states. “No… » read more
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Technology: boosting the impact of news
February 22, 2015
Guest blogpost by Wilfried Ruetten, director of the European Journalism Centre, ahead of the News Impact Summit Brussels discussing new tools and approaches to cover the European Union. It is the business of journalism to generate and distribute relevant information, and its future depends on how well we manage to launch new journalistic products and… » read more
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I freely admit: I’ve been a fanboy of the UK’s Government Delivery Service (GDS) since studying their design principles. Those principles are still good. Everything else, it turns out, was not. I was not the only information architect in Brussels dazzled a few years ago by GDS’ approach which, according to internal reports seen by… » read more
EurActory ‘shows progress’ on evidence-based policy-making [VIDEO]
February 15, 2015
EurActory, the directory that gathers information about experts on EU affairs, was recently launched in beta at the European Parliament. Of course, you already knew that. Above is the video we recorded at the event, including statements of the supporters behind the project. “Anything that we can do to make policy-making more transparent and more… » read more
TTIP can help reap the rewards of the ‘Internet of Things’
February 11, 2015
By John Higgins The Internet of Things – also known as Industry 4.0 – is rapidly becoming reality, driven by the convergence of increasingly connected devices. TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, can help reap the rewards it promises.
Can we use your data?
February 9, 2015
How can you put data to good use while respecting users’ concerns about their personal data protection? It’s a question that many projects are confronted with when digging into all kinds of data sources. Already, big data is triggering innovation across different sectors in Europe. Businesses in the retail sector, for instance, started looking into… » read more
By Tony Graziano, Vice-President of Huawei’s EU Public Affairs Office Wouldn’t it be handy to know which of the people participating in the same event as you share your interests? Well, now there’s an app for that. Thanks to the winning team at the EU-China App Hackathon, the COCOFFEE app will soon enable us to… » read more
MyN@Connected Smart Cities Conference
February 3, 2015
MyN has been showcased at the Connected Smart Cities Conference organised by ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs) in Brussels on 22 January, 2015. The conference covered the following topics: Interoperability, harmonisation of APIs, solutions portability, avoid vendor lock-in. Connected Smart cities at national, regional and European level: National networks and their local work. Using… » read more
Crunch time! EurActory beta goes live
January 30, 2015
Yesterday was crunch time for EurActory, EU Community’s first tool to identify relevant EU experts. We found ourselves surrounding by 150+ potential users, eager to take a peek at the platform. So we pitched EurActory…
New tool for EU Experts – EurActory: let’s recap
January 28, 2015
EU Community will launch the beta version of its first, free service EurActory on 29 January at the European Parliament. But first, we explain the idea one ‘frequently asked question’ at a time. FAQ7 – Hold on, let’s recap In the past few days, we have written about EurActory and what it is for.… » read more
New tool for EU experts – What is EU Community?
January 26, 2015
EU Community will launch the beta version of its first, free service EurActory on 29 January at the European Parliament. But first, we explain the idea one ‘frequently asked question’ at a time. FAQ6 – What is EU Community? More and more people are engaged in the public debate, through a variety of platforms.… » read more
New tool for EU experts – Who is behind EurActory?
January 23, 2015
EU Community will launch the beta version of its first, free service EurActory on 29 January at the European Parliament. But first, we explain the idea one ‘frequently asked question’ at a time. FAQ5 – Who is behind EurActory? At the very beginning of the project, the initiators were confronted with a challenge. The… » read more
EU Community will launch the beta version of its first, free service EurActory on 29 January at the European Parliament. But first, we explain the idea one ‘frequently asked question’ at a time. FAQ4 – What will EurActory look like in the future? Next week, we release the ‘beta version’ of EurActory: a first… » read more
New tool for EU experts – EurActory: Why am I not in there?
January 21, 2015
EU Community will launch the beta version of its first, free service EurActory on 29 January at the European Parliament. But first, we explain the idea one ‘frequently asked question’ at a time. FAQ3 – Why am I not in there? EurActory currently has over 10,000 experts on EU policy. These are mostly sourced from… » read more
New tool for EU experts – Who has a profile on EurActory?
January 20, 2015
EU Community will launch the beta version of its first, free service EurActory on 29 January at the European Parliament. But first, we explain the idea one ‘frequently asked question’ at a time. FAQ2 – Who has a profile on EurActory? You can find anyone working in the EU institutions on EurActory, as well as… » read more
New tool for EU experts – EurActory: What is it for?
January 19, 2015
EU Community will launch the beta version of its first, free service EurActory on 29 January at the European Parliament. But first, we explain the idea one ‘frequently asked question’ at a time. FAQ1 – What is EurActory for? In an earlier post, I discussed EU Community’s first application in development: EurActory. EurActory is tailored… » read more
Are you suffering from Metric Myopia?
January 12, 2015
Before you obsess over your next analytics report, read the recent article by Ev Williams (Twitter and Medium cofounder) on measuring what matters. William’s article was prompted by the infantile way otherwise supposedly intelligent people (venture capitalists, Wall St analysts, tech & business journalists…) measure the value of companies like Twitter and Instagram: we… » read more
Rania Tsopana, Municipality of Nea Ionia Attikis Graduate of Division of Local Government TEI Kalamata raniaaa_t@yahoo.gr Fotis Zygoulis, Municipality of Heraklion Attikis, PhD candidate at the University of Athens (Business Process Reengineering) fotiszygoulis@gmail.com Key words: transparency, open data, government policies, consultation, budget, citizens, interoperability. Open Data Policies in Greece Open public administration data is data… » read more
Net Neutrality: A Hungarian Perspective
December 16, 2014
A LACK OF NET NEUTRALITY WILL HURT SMALL BUSINESSES AND SITES THE MOST By Miklos Orban Call me a history geek, but I love the Modern Mechanix blog. It is about how people foresaw the future in different ages, and funny to see how “the future” turned out at the end. But this blog… » read more
Is ‘digital native’ government possible?
December 15, 2014
An interview with Jim Bankoff, who just raised another raised $46.5 million in funding for Vox Media (“the fastest growing Web brand of 2014″), caught my eye: “Vox.com’s main draw [is] making sense of complicated issues in ways that are easily digestible for online readers… Our content platform is less about the 1s and 0s… » read more