Americans like to think they are best and furthest ahead in technology, and specially tech politics (technology + politics), but once in a while, they have something to learn from the Europeans as well. The best examples of European techPolitics is the topic of the panel I’m going to participate in at the Personal Democracy … Continue reading »
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Basic elements of techpolitics
So many try to reinvent the wheel when it comes to techpolitics in Europe – we need to get better at learning from each other, across borders! I will explain more eventually, but here is my attempt to visualize (in a pretty nitty-gritty way) some of the basic elements of techpolitics. These elements are in … Continue reading »
Følg sporene mine
Vi avskyr overvåkning, men vi legger igjen flere digitale spor enn noensinne, de fleste frivillige. (Another Norwegian article, this time from Morgenbladet a week ago. It’s about surveillance vs. digital footsteeps we voluntarily leave behind). Dagens mest romantiske mail mottatt: «Jeg hadde tenkt til å fri, men så var du ikke online på MSN.» Denne … Continue reading »
A survey of Scandinavian Techpolitics
Why aren’t there more techpolitic attempts in Scandinavia? Why isn’t there a Sunlight Foundation in Denmark, a MySociety in Sweden, a FarmSubsidy in Norway? (This blog post was also posted at Personal Democracy Forum’s European blog) That’s something I’ve been wondering about, since the Scandinavian countries have among the highest internet usage in the world … Continue reading »
My article from 2005 about Iranian bloggers
It has been incredible to follow the developments in Iran over the internet the last few days. Iran’s disputed presidental election has fired up one of the wildest social media protests I’ve ever seen. Within minutes, thousands of tweets are posted on the #iranelection and earlier tonight, I came across these amazing images from the … Continue reading »
Three social media developments: Bild, European Citizens’ Consultations and Norwegian Facebook debate
Bildt, Germany’s largest newspaper, is partnering up with Lidl to sell cheap digital cameras to citizen journalists; EU has released a new citizen “portal”; Norwegian debate: can journalists be “fan” of politicians on Facebook? Bild wants to expand by using citizen journalists. According to Herald Tribune, potential Bild-citizen journalists can buy a digital camera at … Continue reading »
Digital hijacked politicians
I gave a presentation recently about social media for the Green party from several European countries, among them the European Green Party, organized by the Green Campus. You can find my presentation here. Plenty of interesting topics came up, and one of them was what Austrian blogger and web designer Bernard Schmidt called “digital hijacking” … Continue reading »
Internet safety, online gaming and how to avoid becoming a serial killer
I seem to bury myself in reports these days. One report I have to read, but haven’t had time to look properly yet is the so called Byron Reveiw in the UK – Tanya Byron’s report “Safer Children in a Digital World”. According to the cool game blogger at Guardian, Aleks Krotoski, the report says … Continue reading »
Safer Internet, according to European teenagers
What do teenagers think is safe Internet behavior? And what would they advice their peers to do and not to do? Well, a bunch of European 14-17 years old have given a lot of thought on the subject, and on the Safer Internet Day in Brussels a few weeks ago, they presented their ideas. I … Continue reading »
