So two things (that are important and a little comment)
"The finalists and winners of the European eGovernment Awards will be
selected by a panel of eminent independent experts."
1) who are these worthies ... can we lobby them about what we think a
winning entry should be (e.g. standards style interoperability etc)
2) How do we get someone from the mySociety world on the panel in two
years time?
"The European eGovernment Awards are organised every two years. The
aim is to identify and select good practices in the use of ICT in
public services and highlight the benefits of ICT to society,
including:
* Improved quality of life of citizens
* Increased public trust in government
* Increased competitiveness of European enterprises"
Personally I rather approve of the motive for these awards, even if
the quality of the submissions so far are not world shattering, is
there anything we could do as a group to encourage uk gov bodies
(local national quango) to get more involved? even if their work is
not quite where we wish it could be, anything to help motivate them to
improve cant be all that bad!
George.
2009/8/27 Tom Steinberg <[email protected]>:
> Hi all,
>
> I've often commented how there's a deep and unfortunate gap in the EU
> between the genuinely popular democracy and transparency sites like
> www.stemwijzer.nl (millions of users) www.ipp.ro (huge success at
> repeatedly suing their parliament for publication of data) and the
> lavishly EU funded projects that theoretically work in the same sort
> of fields, but which nobody ever seems to have heard of.
>
> Anyway, today I see that the strange EU-bureaucrat approved shadow
> world has just published it's awards short list, or at least a short
> list for what seem to be government-run projects (which I admit isn't
> quite the same as third parties). I thought you might all care to see
> what is 'officially' of note in the sector of "eGovernment empowering
> citizens":
>
> http://www.epractice.eu/en/awardsfinalists2009
>
> I'm not saying there's nothing of value there, don't get me wrong - I
> hope there's some gems we can be 'inspired' by. But I don't actually
> recognise anything...
>
> As always, very grateful for anyone to take a rummage and share their
> findings with the 400-odd other people on this list!
>
> best,
>
> Tom
>
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