An analysis of participation rates in the Obama Administration’s Open Government initiative provide a refreshing reality check for us in Europe. One would think, based on some of my posts, that I was a starry-eyed idealist when it comes to the potential of online communications to improve understanding and participation in the EU by Europeans. [...]

Quite a few people look at me in quite a puzzled way when I mention how the techniques and approaches of online community management ‘may have something to offer’ the EU in terms of communications, but that this may require ‘a change in mentality’. When they look like that, I say “You know, something along [...]

DG INFSO turns to Facebook in its latest ‘roaming-related’ communications drive. Back in 2005, I was on holiday on the north coast of Bretagne, listening to the BBC in my car while I waited for my wife to come back from the shops. And who showed up in my radio? Why, Martin Selmayr. Who? Martin [...]

I’ve posted before on the importance of the semantic web to EU policies and programmes. Here’s a quite well-executed video about the EU’s cluster of projects in the area of Future Internet, which encompasses semantic research, a pervasive internet of things, etc. It’s not on YouTube so, like the video of Tim Berners-Lee I posted [...]