As mentioned earlier on this blog, one of the interesting clusters of projects supported by the Digital Pioneers Fund consists of projects that contribute to the participation of citizens in political and policy issues. In the last two blogposts on this topic, we focused on the rise of what we called ‘open governance’ [...]

How have Open Governance initiatives activated participation of citizens in politics, government and governance? Hereby a first attempt to answer this question. In our search for the state of Open Governance we can define three ways in which initiatives try to engage citizens with politics and government. These three clusters provide for three different [...]

One of the interesting clusters of projects supported by the Digital Pioneers Fund consists of projects that contribute to the participation of citizens in political and policy issues. For example, the Petities.nl project by Reinder Rustema gives citizens the opportunity to start a petition online. It uses the power of the masses online to organize, [...]