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Jun: small city, great example

Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:26 Eric Legale

A French weblog on eDemocracy, Alban, has just published an interesting article on the very active mayor of Jun, member of the Global Cities Dialogue since many years. Jun is a small city in the Grenada Region in Spain.

In the last 10 years, this municipality has shown great example of e-democracy. Here are a few facts about digital experience in this municipality of Sierra Nevada:

A good example of local eDemocracy

Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:22 Eric Legale

Nowadays, we can see that the development of e-democracy is taking an important value around the world, as a way in which the local authorities can be more in contact of the citizens. An example of this development is “e-dialogos”, an innovative and fully fledged e-Democracy online platform for the citizens of the City of Trikala in Greece to participate in the decision-making processes of the city.

A computer for less than 50 euros to reduce the digital divide

Tuesday, 23 February 2010 12:27 Eric Legale

In Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, about 50 repack computers of the City Hall have been sold at the rate of 42€ to disadvantaged people, beforehand registered with the Municipal Center of Social Action, in order to reduce the digital divide.

Helsinki Service Map

Thursday, 18 February 2010 11:18 Mervi Kukkonen

Have you ever wanted to know which public services are next to your home? Have you ever wanted to discover which service point is the best? Helsinki has found a good solution for every citizen’s needs.

Helsinki Service Map is a map based web service where people can find all public, private and third-sector services only by its address. Citizens can also search their house on the map and find services nearby. For each, it will appear e-services, public traffic services and its website.

World Digital Solidarity Agency (DSA) - Sankoré programme

Monday, 15 February 2010 17:42 Jean Pouly

For the World Digital Solidarity Agency (DSA) one of the main priorities in 2010 is given to e-education projects in Africa in co-operation with the French Government. Myself, as director of DSA based in Lyon (France), would like to present the Sankoré programme, a “digital education for all”, which was part of the Franco-British initiative. It is dated 27 March 2008 launched by the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the French president Nicolas Sarkozy and it is aimed at creating an open partnership with other countries for - “Reaching the objective of universal primary education for all by 2015” - “Educating 16 million children in Africa by 2010”» - “Recruiting and training an extra 3.8 million teachers”.

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