How do we maximise our impact?

Here are some thoughts from me on possible next steps:
1) Write to all or some of the ministers who signed the Ministerial Declaration asking them to endorse the Open Declaration and say a) what are the top things their government has already done to implement this agenda b) what are the top things their government [...]

What are the key policy action that should be in the next EU e-gov action plan?

Dear readers
let’s start thinking about the next steps. The EC is drafting now the e-gov action plan. The old one is here.
We now need to think about concrete policy measures that we would like to be in it, in order to achieve the goals of transparency, participation and empowerment.
What do you suggest? Of course you [...]

Back from Malmo Ministerial Conference on e-gov

Here is our resume from Malmo, where we achieved our goal to officially present the Open Declaration at the Ministerial Conference.
THE CONTEXT
The conference was similar to the previous ministerial conferences. There was a notable increase in the number of talk on web 2.0, participation and power of information: however, these were quite general and high-level. [...]

The full presentation in Malmo

For those of you who were not in Malmo, here is the full text of the presentation we gave (without ppt)
Paul: This session is about traditional egovernment in 2020. But we need to go beyond e-government. After 10 years of effort how different is bureaucracy today from what Max Weber described over one hundred years [...]

Endorsement progressing fast, but need to be faster!

We reached 1200 endorsement on the www.endorsetheopendeclaration.eu We need to reach 200o by the end of the week
We also have 1400 subscribers on Facebook . We use the Facebook group to coordinate the work.
So please follow us on facebook and get as many people as possible to endorse the declaration.
Thanks!
 
 

We passed 500 endorsements mark! Thanks to Germany!

A first good passing point. We have 521 endorsements, accelerating fast thanks to a surge in German endorsement.
Spain is now still first and reached 100. Germany is second with 87.
Obviously far from our goal still, but endorsement rate is accelerating.

319 endorsement received, Spain still leading

Here is the update on endorsements:
ES    91
GR    49
NL    49
IT    34
UK    20
PT    14
DE    13
BE    9
AT    8
DK    8
Other    8
FI    5
FR    3
SE    3
IE    2
HU    1
LU    1
RO    1
Grand Total    319

206 endorsement received, Spain leading

We received 206 endorsements so far. Here’s the division by country. While some said that this exercise was too UK-centric, in reality Spain and Netherland are far more active. Needless to say, we need many more endorsement, at least 2000! Hopefully now that we have the translated version it will be easier – Jens just [...]

Translating the Open Declaration: now available in Greek Catalan and Spanish

We asked for help, and help arrived. We asked 2 days ago you to translate the declaration in other EU language, and we now have it in Catalan, Greek and Spanish. Thanks a lot to Alexander Kidonakis, Damià Casas, Diego and Serafí Pujol,
We look forward to receiving translations in other languages so that it will [...]

Open Declaration is published. Now let’s endorse it!

Here is final version of the open declaration. Now let’s get as many people as possible to ENDORSE it!

We all did a great job together to make it comprehensive and meaningful. But we’re not done!!!
We now need as many people as possible to endorse it. Please visit the dedicated website and register your endorsement. Help [...]