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The 2007 Positech political simulator where you seek to get re-elected as a government of a fabricated nation and solve the multitude of social problems you are given on your entry into the game. The game IS addictive to begin with but once you get over the initial phase you realise there’s nothing to keep you playing the game once you’ve completed a few scenarios and the formula is fairly simple. That’s not to say this isn’t a novel or different game, just that for the price on their website you might expect more in the way of longevity. Their official site is: positech.co.uk
The French newspaper Le Figaro publishes a barometer of opinions on the Internet about presidential candidates, "The Scan". It compiles several data sources: 80 professionals information websites, including 36 national newspapers, 26 regional press, 9 radio stations, 7 TV channels, 55 blogs, statutes of public French-language on Facebook and all public tweets from French Twitter members. For each content, the semantic analysis engine of Scan gives a positive or negative feeling, whose association can measure several classifications: sentiment in media, on social networks, citation volume, recruiting fans (on Facebook and Twitter). According to Scan, this week, the best performance is for the centrist candidate, Francois Bayrou, who recorded a large increase in the number of citations on social networks and traditional media.
The initiative of the Belgian capital "is part of a logic of sharing and transparency and I hope that young and less young computing enthusiasts are developing applications to assist Brussels" explained Karine Lalieux, deputy-mayor of Brussels, in charge of digital. Several datasets are available today. They concern: comic trail, libraries, public toilets, car parks, parking for disabled people, sports facilities, and ATMs. An offer which will be gradually extended in collaboration with all City departments. The initiative of Brussels city is part of a movement still new (see the article "What Open Data strategy for cities?"), but inevitable. Publication of public data contributes, indeed, at the transparency of public action. Even if, as writes Julia Glidden from 21c Consultancy, "authorities are still struggling to become familiar with that process and the strategy still faces fierce resistance".
Nicolas Sarkozy launched its offensive on the web Just after announcing his candidacy for a new mandate of President, Nicolas Sarkozy launched "France Forte.fr"(Strong France.fr), his official campaign website, his Twitter account, an official page on Foursquare, a very special Timeline on Facebook, where the outgoing president has ten times more fans than his Socialist rival, with 540,000 registered … If his website links with Facebook and Twitter, allow users to view videos, interviews and photos on the campaign, access to news and calendar, the campaign website will broadcast exclusive interviews between the candidate and French citizens, made outside of traditional media. The online campaign budget would include 2 million euro (10% of the total budget).
Socialists in the field of irony Young Socialists were quick to react after the announcement of the candidacy of Nicolas Sarkozy, by igniting Twitter with the hashtag #Sarkoçasuffit (Sarko, that's enough!) which was widely taken to be the top point of Topics Global Trends in the hours that followed, and launching a website to divert the official poster campaign, "My strong France". Within hours, over a thousand posters have been created and shared on social networks. Dynamics that anti-Sarkozy want amplify with the website "Sarko, that's enough!"
Paris wants to boost e-Petition If online petitions are part of everyday life for Americans, British or German, the system is not really popular in France. The City of Paris, for example, allows e-petitions since two years, without success. The parisian authorities just launched an information campaign to try to restart the system. "Only 90 petitions have been published online, of which 37 were validated by the Paris committee of public debate", recognizes Bouakkaz Hamou, deputy-mayor for local democracy. But they have collected between one and 49 signatures… And, to be debated in the council of Paris, a petition must concern a matter of daily life (roads, environment, waste management, municipal facilities) and collect 54,000 signatures, representing 3% of the adult population. Paris just decided to lower this number to 18,000 signatories, representing 1% of the adult population.
After SOPA, the Internet mobilization blocks ACTA After the success of the online mobilization againt the anti-piracy law SOPA, mobilization of European webusers blocks the international treaty "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" (ACTA) process of ratifying. The agreement aims to establish an international legal framework for targeting counterfeit goods, generic medicines and copyright infringement on the Internet. The European Commission has been forced to release an 8-page document justifying how the ACTA negotiations were conducted. After the success of mass protests across Europe against the agreement, the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, has expressed his skepticism about the follow-up: "I don't find it good in its current form". ACTA is set to be debated in the European Parliament in June.
Why Internet in Iran severely disrupted? Some 36 million Iranian web users (on a 75 million population) can no longer access their e-mail, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube while browsing speed has dropped dramatically. The cut-off appeared to target all encrypted international websites outside Iran that depend on the Secure Sockets Layer protocol, which display addresses beginning with https, according to Earl Zmijewski of Renesys, a U.S. company that tracks Internet traffic worldwide. Control of the internet is a major concern for Iran, whose authorities have created in 2011, a specialized police unit to fight against "cybercrime" including social networks, widely used by the opposition and announced the establishment of an "Iranian Internet" to gradually replace servers and foreign search engines. No doubt that authorities are stepping up censorship of opposition supporters ahead of parliamentary elections next month.
Hollande in the footsteps of Obama? Alongside the official website campaign, francoishollande.fr, the team of the socialist candidate for the French presidential election has just launched "All Hollande", a website for mobilizing activists. The objective is to organizing door to door and convince at least 5 million people to vote for him. Through targeting of priority areas with high potential to mobilize 10,000 activists will be trained to recruit 150,000 volunteers to go and meet directly voters. it is also possible to forward content to Facebook friends, invite them to join the candidate Facebook page, or make a donation. The strategy is directly inspired by the Obama campaign of 2008, which had shown that 14 abstainer met personally had moved to vote, 10,000 times more efficient than leaflets. The French socialist team is also accompanied by Blue State Digital, the agency headed by the Obama former online campaign director, Joe Rospars, who came to Paris himself. The Internet campaign of Francois Hollande has a budget of 2 M€ and led by 35 people.
For the French centrist candidate, it's possible to mobilize in a funny way The mobilization website of the centrist candidate, Francois Bayrou, is less rigid than the Holland team. With Bayrou.fr/volunteers, the idea is to provide registered activists a choice of actions to perform, such as printing and distributing campaign leaflets to friends. Like Foursquare, the activist earn points for every action taken and may even earn badges. For Matthieu Lamarre, the digital campaign director of Francois Bayrou, "the idea was to offer a fun and accessible tool where the number of actions to be performed is not limited and which is designed to evolve throughout the campaign ". The site is optimized for iPad, iPhone and Android.
In Syria, the revolution involves also Internet Impossible, of course, to put on the same level people who die by the bullets and those who use the networks to carry the revolution. But as in all conflicts, information warfare is real and it takes place today on the web where hundreds of emails from Syrian President Bashar Assad's office were leaked after an attack by the hacker group Anonymous. Some 78 inboxes of Assad's aides and advisers were hacked and the password that some used was "12345". The exchanges were published by Israeli newspaper Haaretz, including how Damascus is seeking to manipulate the American public.
The internet should be a demilitarised zone The cyber war is no longer science fiction. We can not only access to confidential data, as illustrated by the syrian example, but it can also cause physical damage since the discovery in 2010 of Stuxnet, a real cyber weapon used against Iranian nuclear facilities. For Russian Eugene Kaspersky, cyber security specialist, countries should adopt treaty would create a cyber equivalent to the International Atomic Energy Authority, also reporting to the UN and with similar powers of inspection. "It would not eliminate cyber weapons completely, but it would improve the current situation a lot," he said.
The world's most democratic Twitter experiment in Sweden? BBC relays this amazing initiative launched by Visit Sweden with the Swedish Institute [governmental agency for the promotion of Sweden]. They have ceded control of the Twitter account @Sweden to a panel of Swedish since mid-December. What is undoubtedly a clever publicity stunt does also appear to be the "democratic experiment" it claims to be. Tweets are not censored and are by no means all positive. So, democracy or publicity?
London defend its reuse of electronic vote counting The Greater London Authority has defended its reuse of electronic vote counting for the 2012 mayoral and assembly member elections following the renewal of allegations from one analyst that such systems are less secure and not worth their cost. The vote will be complex: on 3 May, Londoners will cast four votes on three ballot papers, each using a different electoral system. They will elect the Mayor of London and 25 members of the London Assembly for 14 constituency contests and a proportional representation system for 11 London-wide members. If turnout is similar to 2008, a total of almost 8 million ballots will be counted. “We think this marginal price difference in 2012 is a price worth paying for a quicker and more accurate count”, Euan Holloway, spokesperson for London Elects, told E-Government Bulletin this month. A traditional manual count would take four days, but an electronic count can produce a result within 12 hours, he said.
Anonymous' reaction raises many questions Retaliation launched by the anonymous, which blocked many websites of government agencies, media or cultural industries in the world, after the close of the Megaupload platform by the American justice, raises many question about the powers and the might of anonymous. Despite the charges against Megaupload (the indictment is available online), accused of organizing a "Mega Conspiracy, criminal organization with global ramifications," why the anonymous set themselves as judges? In democracy, these attacks should not it concern us?
# Jan25, like a digital Bastille day? According to LSE scholar Charlie Beckett, quoted by France 24, January 25 provided the Bastille moment of the Egyptian revolution, meaning it created a symbol that was simple and potent enough for everyone to rally behind it – much as the fall of the Bastille prison had done for the French Revolution in 1789. One year after the beginning of the egyptian revolution, the hashtag #Jan25 became the symbol of an entire movement and perhaps the most famous hashtag ever on micro-blogging site Twitter.
India Prime Minister joins Twitter Or rather, his press service, which has just opened an account @PMOIndia (Prime Minister Office of India), showing its determination to approach the people. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is indeed often criticized for its inaccessibility. Journalists are clearly the target, in a country with less than 10% of Internet users, according to the Canadian Sherbrooke University. To read in India Today.
2012, Twitter election? While Mitt Romney won the Florida primary in the U.S., an article of The New York Times explains the importance of Twitter in the way his team is to influence the debate. We learn that the tweets from journalists are particularly monitored, like all subjects of controversy which might affect the candidate. But Twitter is also used as an offensive weapon to criticize the opponent.
Barack Obama dialogue with citizens on Google + Imagine five people selected from tens of thousands, calling on the President live from the webcam installed in their living room. This is what happened last Monday when five Americans citizens, who participated in an interview with YouTube and Google+ to discuss his State of the Union Address. For this "first online conversation to happen at the White House in real time — ever" as called by the White House, more than 227,000 people had taken time to participate — submitting questions for the President to answer or voting for their favorite.
Francois Hollande flour-bombed also on the web It is the charm of the Internet: its ultra responsive. It did not take 24 hours for the misadventure of the socialist candidate for president turns into a small video game online. He was victim of a flour attack by a woman just as he prepared to make a speech. The incident had raised a lot of questions about the protection of presidential candidates. This did not prevent an Internet user who is a young right activist to create during the night a little online game very simple: flour a maximum time of Francois Hollande in minimum time. A classic in these little games on the net. To play log onto fh-2012.com.
Internet creates wider venue for political threats The U.S. Secret Service are on alert, estimating the level of invilité against politicians especially high during an election campaign seen as very aggressive, both within the Republican camp than against President Obama. A police sergeant from Arizona has been removed from patrol and assigned to desk duties pending an internal investigation because he appeared in a photo posted on Facebook with weapons and what appears to be a bullet-riddled image of Barack Obama. According to USA Today, if political incivility is nothing new, the Internet is making more of the venom public, and it has changed the nature of incivility by allowing people to spew insults anonymously that can reach millions of people. That is why the Internet threat desk, set up within the secret services since 2000, pays particular attention to identify, among the bluster, the real threats.
The French net-campaign viewed on the other side of the Channel How our neighbors across the Channel perceive the beginning of the French presidential campaign on internet? UKauthority.com, an online publication that specializes in the use of digital tools in the public sector, provides an interesting overview on the subject, partly inspired by Citizen 2.0.
France, USA, Russia … voters in these three countries are going to the polls this year. Is Internet will play a role i these elections?
The last 100 days We enter the last hundred days of the electoral campaign for the first round of the French presidential election of April 22. A timing that will take us to June 17 for the second round of parliamentary elections, a long time to explore and analyze all that officials are imagined to mobilize voters online. Reuters published an interesting file (. Pdf, in French) questioning the role that Internet will play in this election.
French Socialist candidate adopts the Obama method To mark the 100 days of the campaign, the socialist candidate team sends e-mailing inviting French people to "become a volunteer for Francois Hollande," inspired by the successful campaign of Barack Obama in 2008. During the socialist primary, nearly 700,000 email addresses were collected before being qualified by a team of twenty people, late December. Today, they are asked if they wish to take action closer to their home, going door to door, putting up posters or organizing dinners apartment.
To be a hero of the web will be enough? Ron Paul, "the young and the Web hero" as the title of an article in the French magazine "L'Express", failed to win the New Hampshire primary, in United States. Those were based on analysis of "AllFacebook.com," which pointed out that data from three different companies highlight this influence of the candidate on the web, to bet on his victory are for their expenses. But with over 20% of the vote in Iowa and in New Hampshire, the Texan remains a phenomenon to follow.
Opening of Putin's website campaign Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin launched his website campaign for the presidential election of March 4. Putin2012.ru shows, of course, his biography and his proposals but offers a particular section, "Changing Russia together," where visitors can make their own proposals. It did not take more than a few hours, as reported by The New York Times, for the initiative turns against him, much comment inviting him to step down now.
A global study minimizes social networks influence A study conducted in 31 countries by KPMG revealed that while 86% of people are connecting regularly on social networks, only one third admits to being influenced in their decisions. However, the study was conducted to measure the influence of advertising on the purchasing activities of users of social networks (. Pdf).
The 5 myths of Arab Spring The Washington Post publishes a contribution of a professor at Stanford University, Fouad Ajami, who write about "the five myths surrounding the Arab Spring", a year after the revolution in Tunisia. Among them, the idea of "Revolutions Facebook and Twitter." "Mohammed Bouazizi, the young Tunisian street vendorwho set himself ablaze, didn’t have a Facebook page. He had a sense of righteous anger and despair. We should rein in the technophilia: Internet penetration in the Arab world is still modest" Ajami writes, explaining that revolutions took place in a conventional manner. But his interpretation minimizes the crucial role in mobilizing people by sending photos and video during the events. Without Internet, it is likely that these revolutions were crushed without being aware of it, here in occident.
The year 2012 will be eventful, with a lot of anecdotes and experiences mixing politics and digital in France, in USA and other countries. Hence the idea to summarize weekly news on e-Democracy. The use of technology, from Twitter to social networking, via location-based networks, web and mobile services will change the way we see the world and to influence the course of events.
Access to the Internet is a Human Right? No, access to the Internet is not a fundamental right, like freedom of speech and freedom of access to information, write Vinton Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet in an article published in The New York Times. "The Internet is just one means, albeit an important one, by which to improve the human condition".
These foreign presidents addicted to Twitter The French magazine "Nouvel Observateur" published an interesting article on the use of Twitter by Heads of State and Government in the world. Furthermore, it was by Twitter that Cristina Fernandez Kirchner ( @ CFKArgentina ) thanked "God and the Argentine people of the blessings received" after his operation and the announcement that she did not have a cancer. This article reminded us that it is through the same channel that Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president had sent a message of support to the argentine president.
The Facebook page of Nicolas Sarkozy comes to life 5 posts in a week is all that over the previous three months. The Facebook page of Nicolas Sarkozy (nearly 494,000 fans to date ) reminds us that we are entering an election year.
Right-wing activists leave Sarkozy In France, Arnaud Dassier, one of the right "activists" the most active announced his support for the centrist Bayrou. In an interview, he explained his choice by the need to "open the locked political system that prevents the integration of different people, from civil society" and "reconcile the national representation with the forces of the country ". The same week, Pierre de la Coste, Chairman of the club Hyper Republic, published an open letter to his former cabinet colleague, Henri Guaino. He announced that he will vote "for the first and probably last time" for the socialist candidate in the second round of the presidential election if Nicolas Sarkozy is present.
United States also is in campaign The campaign for the nomination of the Republican candidate who will face Barack Obama, really began with the Iowa caucuses, narrowly won by Mitt Romney. The popularity of the former Massachusetts governor is widely reported on the Internet. His Facebook page has well over 1, 2 million fans, far more than its main competitors. The breakthrough of former Senator Rick Santorum , came second, resulted in an increase in its visibility on the Web, but according to Socialbakers , which analyzed the Facebook candidate, it is Ron Paul who would win the onine electoral battle because he is the most efficient in mobilizing its supporters.