In Vienna, students have seized control of the university’s lecture hall to protest neoliberal reforms of the education system. What makes this student revolt so remarkable is that its participants use techniques they have learned on the web.
The protests erupted rather spontaneously after professors and students at the much smaller Academy of Fine Arts ended [...]
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Austrian students are taking social media-trained organization to the ground
BerlinInOctober e-democracy summit
On October 15 and 16 I attended an un-conference called BerlinInOctober, organized by politik-digital.de, e-demokratie.org and mySociety. For the third time, people from several international e-democracy projects met in Berlin to exchange experiences and collect inspirations for new services.
That’s why a big share of time was reserved for presentations for individual projects. Many portals are [...]
And everybody goes: “yeaahh”. Why a nonsensical flashmob is the ultimate answer to Germany’s election campaigns.
There’s not much time to go until the German federal elections on Sunday, but we are far from any election fever. Angela Merkel’s success seems inevitable, the only remaining question is whether she will be able to lead a coalition with the libertarian FDP or if she will be forced to maintain the current coalition [...]
