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The Commission’s green paper on open internet and net neutrality

I just wanted to answer the first few questions on the European Commission’s most recent green paper “on the open internet and net neutrality”. As part of the Neelie Kroes’ Digital Agenda this a crucial issue that more and more people around Europe become aware of. If you’re unfamiliar with why net neutrality matters I [...]

Posted 19 July 2010 § ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Neelie Kroes: “Open source is not a dirty word anymore”

I’m glad to hear that in this video message to the participants of the GNOME Users’ And Developers’ European Conference  (GUADEC) at the end of the month in The Hague the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda and Vice-President of the European Commission  Neelie Kroes is reiterating her advocacy for open source software. She reflects on [...]

Posted 15 July 2010 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Better Know A Euroblog [updated]

There has been quite the jumble after the presentation of the Brussels Blogger Study 2010 with which public affairs firm Waggener Edstrom wanted to show the most influential euroblogs. I don’t wish to comment on the poor methodology and research of the study here. Jon, Eurogoblin, Mathew and others already have in detail. One thing [...]

Posted 15 July 2010 § ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged:

Gipfeltreffen zur Europäischen Bürgerinitiative

Als Reaktion auf unseren Blogginportalworkshop bei der diesjährigen re:publica, bin ich eingeladen worden, auf dem European Citizens’ Initiative Summit in Salzburg das Internet zu vertreten. In den nächsten Tagen wird der Livestream, der die gesamte Konferenz ins Netz übertrug, als Video auf den Seiten zu finden sein. Die Konferenz war insofern besonders interessant, als dass [...]

Posted 12 May 2010 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

PolitCamp – where politics meets the interwebs

In general there are two ways to approach big barcamps like this weekend’s PolitCamp in Berlin, a barcamp that in its second year is still designed to bring together politicians, political activists and average joe social media users. You can either follow as many sessions as possible. Or you simply take one or two sessions [...]

Posted 20 March 2010 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,