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Young Scots offered interactive democracy
News The Scottish Executive is attempting to get young children more involved in democracy through a new Web site, it announced on Thursday. The interactive site, presented by the executive's virtual newscaster, Seonaid, offers games, animations and...
[September 24, 2004, 14:15]
Government seeks views on e-democracy
News The UK government has launched a public consultation into e-democracy that could result in the widespread implementation of voting via the Internet or by mobile phone. Speaking in parliament on Tuesday, the leader of the House of Commons, Robin...
[July 16, 2002, 16:13]
Open source project boosts democracy online
News An e-democracy project, which aims to set up online forums for members of the public, is "ready for expansion across the UK" according to an evaluation of its initial pilots. The Issues Forum local e-democracy project, which aims engage the public...
[May 6, 2005, 15:10]
Makeover Democracy
Downloads Makeover Democracy is a an icon set for the Democracy Player by the Participatory Culture Foundation. The icons were designed in-house by Icon Icon and come with an installer / uninstaller.
[September 13, 2006, 8:00]
Microsoft's 'freedom and democracy' row in China
News Microsoft may have banned the words 'democracy' and 'freedom' from the Chinese version of its MSN website. According to the FT, the MSN website is blocking anti-communist phrases by sending an error message to anyone using the words, in a bid to...
[June 13, 2005, 17:30]
Malaysians enrol text messages for democracy
Talkback Bravo! Malaysia Boleh!
[September 3, 2003, 9:00]
A triumph of efficiency over democracy
Talkback I think we need to pass a law making it illegal to use indirect justification for laws. People using file sharing to make money to fund terrorism' is pretty indirect. By that logic, one should consider raiding Girl Guides for selling cookies...
[March 11, 2004, 16:59]
The best democracy money can buy
Talkback Quoting from memory: If only politicians get to decide what is bought and sold then the first things to be bought and sold will be the politicians themselves.
[January 16, 2006, 11:15]
Microsoft's 'freedom and democracy' row in China
Talkback Yea well if you're dumb enough to use MSN search then that's what you should expect.
[June 13, 2005, 21:13]
Microsoft's 'freedom and democracy' row in China
Talkback Everyone is on vacation - or just jaded, disillusioned and accepting? Capitalists, whether MS ("You are not allowed to publish your test results if you test our products") or Apple ("We don't sell publishers of unflattering books in our stores...
[June 15, 2005, 1:20]
The best democracy money can buy
Leader Other people's scandals are always the tastiest - and at the moment, the British are spoiled for choice. In the US, busted lobbyist Jack Abramoff is singing like a Welsh choirboy as he fingers everyone in receipt of dodgy cash, and the aria's still...
[January 13, 2006, 9:55]
Malaysians enrol text messages for democracy
News Malaysians will soon be able to use text messages to verify voting information and book intercity bus tickets, according to official news agency Bernama. Mobile phone users in Malaysia can use SMS to verify their voting information, such as the...
[September 2, 2003, 10:20]
Democracy Now Gadget
Downloads Keep up to date on the important news. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[December 10, 2007, 5:01]
Social Democracy With a Guiding Hand
White Papers Social networking, in whatever form it finally decides to adopt, is here to stay. Whether one believe in the blog as a means for an individual to publish their undiluted thoughts on a subject or see the blog morphing to becoming something that is...
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]
Democracy?
Talkback For many years our ancestors fought, and many died, for freedom from oppression - and this is certainly not freedom. The government, supposedly under the supervision of Parliament, has become arrogant and oppressive with little or no regard to the...
[November 6, 2008, 14:50]
They are women in technology. Hear them roar.
News "I see the Internet as a huge resource and a very powerful resource," said Ferris, the president of International Women's Democracy Center, a global group that trains women outside the U.S.to run for office in their countries.
[June 29, 1998, 9:09]
Google bows to Chinese censorship
Talkback It is terribly sad that "democracy" is forced on Iraq with bullets, but nobody wants to bother inducing democracy in China with freedom of information - a much less deadly course of action for the general populace.
[January 25, 2006, 13:43]
Study: Net is no Utopia
News Researchers investigating the social implications of cyber life have dismissed the notion that the Internet is the ultimate democracy and discovered a new breed of DIY medical patients to boot. The idea the Net is a democracy is a myth.
[September 10, 1999, 14:05]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback This is against democracy; don't make your problem as everyone else problem. Indian are peace loving people, you seem to be unaware and uneducated if you don’t respect biggest democracy of the world. One person's bad services cannot blame entire...
[February 15, 2006, 2:52]
Online committees herald e-government breakthrough
News E-democracy campaigners are celebrating a potentially important breakthrough that will allow UK citizens to use the Internet to help shape government policy. The scheme goes against the advice of Otto von Bismarck, who famously remarked, "If you...
[May 24, 2002, 12:42]
