Title: News and Briefs

Authors: Valentina Trikounaki; Eleni-Revekka Staiou

Addresses: Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication, Education and the Mass Media, University of Athens, Greece. ' Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication, Education and the Mass Media, University of Athens, Greece

Abstract: These brief news items include 1) EU: Joinup, a new collaborative platform offering a variety of services designed to help e-Government professionals share their experience with interoperability solutions and also support them to find, choose, re-use, develop and implement open source software and semantic interoperability assets. 2) The French government release of the beta version of its open government data website data.gouv.fr. 3) The launch of the initiative.eu platform to empower initiators of European Citizen Initiatives to open a deliberative online space for their respective ECI ideas, inviting EU citizens to support and give input in the formulation of their initiatives.

Keywords: JoinUp; collaborative platforms; European Commission; EU; European Union; public administration; interoperability solutions; open platforms; public data; France; open government; ECIs; European Citizen Initiatives; public participation; electronic governance; e-governance.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2011.046033

International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2011 Vol.4 No.4, pp.361 - 362

Published online: 27 Mar 2012 *

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