Why Citizen Participation May Be An Illusion There are great expectations about how governments will be able to leverage technology in the near future that will finally allow them to re-engage with citizens. We use different names for this: government 2.0, open government, e-democracy, e-participation. The basic assumption is that as citizen use technologies like social software to connect with each other and gather around issues and topics they care about, they’ll be able to make their voices heard more clearly and more timely by politicians and government officials. When we look at barriers for this to happen, we usually focus on governments as the culprits.
User Interviews: How, When, and Why to Conduct Them A user interview is a UX research method during which a researcher asks one user questions about a topic of interest (e.g., use of a system, behaviors and habits) with the goal of learning about that topic. Unlike focus groups, which involve multiple users at the same time, user interviews are one-on-one sessions (although occasionally several facilitators may take turns asking questions). UX Interviews tend to be a quick and easy way to collect user data, so they are often used, especially in Lean and Agile environments. They are closely related to journalistic interviews and to the somewhat narrower and more formal HCI method called the critical-incident technique, which was introduced in 1954 by John Flanagan. Although you may feel that doing a UX user interview is simple and straightforward, there is more to a good interview than many people realize. Here, I distill some of the best practices.
Base de données dynamique des systèmes judiciaires européens The comparison of quantitative data from different countries with various geographical, economic and legal situations is a delicate task. It should be approached with great caution by the experts writing the report and by the readers consulting it, interpreting it, and analysing the information it contains. In order to compare the various states and their systems, the particularities of the systems, which might explain differences in data from one country to another, must be borne in mind (different judicial structures, the way of the courts organisation, use of statistical tools to evaluate the systems, etc.). Trans-Pacific Partnership Final Texts 2-D: Australia General Notes to Tariff Schedule View: HTML or PDF. 2-D: Australia Tariff Elimination Schedule View: HTML or PDF.
Pew Research Center's Internet & American Li The internet gives citizens new paths to government services and information As government agencies at all levels bring their services online, Americans are turning in large numbers to government websites to access information and services. Fully 82% of internet users (representing 61% of all American adults) looked for information or completed a transaction on a government website in the twelve months preceding this survey. Plans and Pricing Zoom Meetings (mobile and desktop client): This is what users use day to day to join meetings from their personal or work computer or mobile device. Zoom Meeting is a desktop application and smartphone app designed for a user account on user-assigned devices (such as your mobile device, tablet, or desktop). The device that the Zoom Meeting app lives on is not designed to be a shared resource, it's tied to an individual.
Bill Roberts on the Web of Data - Public sector open data: big p We’re in the very early days of the UK government’s new approach to open data. While it seems to be going in the right direction and progress has in many respects been remarkably quick (eg this recent announcement on public sector transparency), clearly we still have a lot to learn and many problems to overcome. Chris Taggart and Vicky Sargent’s recentarticle on lessons learned from the Open Election Data project was extremely informative on how far we still have to go. I strongly recommend that you read it in full. It’s a salutary reminder that although activity around linked data is blooming, it’s very easy to forget that most people have no idea what we are talking about! That’s our failing, not theirs.
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