Comments on: It’s for you: NGOs fill the digital space in the Telecoms Package

By: Illegal downloading ignites spark in Swedish election campaign « Public Affairs 2.0

Fri, 15 May 2009 14:16:14 +0000

[...] about Internet’s future’, Brussels’ plan to cut off illegal downloaders from the internet (or 3 strikes and you’re out) caused outcry among Pirate Bay supporters, Swedish politicians and open citizens rights groups. [...]

By: EU Telcoms Package in Second Reading: Internet access and data control may be getting some new gatekeepers « Vidiksis’s Blog

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:49:27 +0000

[...] and Energy (ITRE) and the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), many NGOs are speaking out against these net discrimination concerns. Opposition is also fueled by [...]

By: Digital Tools in Public Affairs - presentation and links « Public Affairs 2.0

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:02:53 +0000

[...] du Net post and [...]

By: Magnus

Magnus — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:46:29 +0000

Hi Pierre,

Thanks for your comment!

Je serai très intéressé de lire votre thèse. N’hésitez pas à me l’envoyer !

Magnus

By: Pierre-Antoine Rousseau

Pierre-Antoine Rousseau — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:00:08 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for this article Magnus.

Yes, the European NGOs in the Internet sector are able to put into practice a powerful lobbying (wiki-lobbying or open-source lobbying). Basically, with a very low budget, these NGOs can reach a huge visibility on Internet on influence MEPs thanks to the professional use of wikis, etc.

Btw. I have made Master’s thesis on this very subject (and especially about the lobbying of one this NGO during the “software patent directive”). I can send it to you if you are interested. However, it’s in French…

By: Magnus

Magnus — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:30:26 +0000

Thanks for enlightening us about the “Political Memory” tool – seems really cool and useful!

Looking forward hearing more about it in the future.

Magnus

By: orcadia

orcadia — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:15:42 +0000

Get the amendments online, so that people can discuss them.

The European Parliament and other institutions still do not understand that they have to get the debate online going.

The days of drafting the laws in dark rooms of EU institutions is not yet over.

Where is the wiki analysis of the amendments on the IFPI website?

By: Pi

Pi — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:21:28 +0000

Also look at “Political Memory” :
http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Political_Memory

It is an online wiki-based tool where one can easily get to reach his MEPs (click his phone number to call him via your favorite VoIP software), find MEPs by groups, commissions, parliament building floors, etc… People can enrich every MEPs page by adding his positions and staments on our issues.

It is also used to keep track of the votes on our issues, and helps us to “rank” MEPs given to accordance between their votes and our recommandations. (here it is for Sept. 24th vote for instance :
http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Telecoms_package_directives_1st_reading_by_score )

Political Memory was incredibly useful for helping us to reach our objectives, and we keep improving it ( :* to Gérald “gibus”!!!)

Thank you for your article acknowledging the work we do on these crucial issues.

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399….