How does it work? User may answer to a dozen questions on topics as diverse as taxes, globalization, poverty, exclusion, public services, business, religion, homosexuality, abortion, drugs, fight against crime and immigration.

The 1st edition of the World e-Gov Forum, whose innovative format is a world first, will take place on 13, 14 and October 15, 2010. The program will be announced in May 2010.

About Acteurs publics.  Each month, the magazine decrypts and analysis the heart of the state, corridors of power, along with those who act in the public sector. The magazine also organizes public meetings on the Modernization of State and Territories personals Durables. The acquisition of the World e-Gov Forum by Acteurs publics confirms the group's strategy to develop events with high added value.

Labour, on the other hand, has the "opposite challenge". Its supporters "drive conversations, yet the official line doesn't strategically trickle down", the report adds. Labour MPs had more than 90.000 followers, Lib Dem more than 20.000 and Conservatives around 20.000.

Conservative leader David Cameron said he had no plans to start tweeting: "You need to use all methods of communication... The only problem I have is that politicians spend so much time talking, and giving speeches and giving interviews and on blogs and all the rest of it."

The French newspaper "Le Monde" has published, last February 19, an interesting article entitled: "China: towards a great schism of the Internet?". Hubert Guillaud, chief editor of InternetActu.net and one of the founders of the French New generalation Internet Foundation, explains how China is changing Internet by creating a new network with a new architecture. With the same ambition than before: to control what chinese people are reading.

Since more than three years, Chinese DNS are not anymore under Icann control. The official reason is to allow Chinese people to enter a website address with ideograms instead using latin alphabet. Chinese webusers are focused on something like a subnet, disconnected from Internet and directly controlled by Beijing. This schism has been accompanied by a massive changeover to the new IPv6 Internet standard in only six months.

Until now, Chinese authorities attempted to put a sort of firewall between the country and the rest of the world. But with this new architecture, those who use Chinese characters are going to a part of international websites, previously monitored, checked and brought back online by the authorities.

The risk is to see two separate Internet networks, drawing on other totalitarian countries to follow the same path.

After the crisis between Google and Beijing, this article reminds that communication networks have always been, for States, a necessity: to know before others was a vital asset to enemy. Since Sun Tsu information, more than money, is the sinews of war.

• Read the article (in French)

The cash is being allocated as a grant scheme by UK online centres, a network of more than 6,000 locations providing computer and internet access and support. Helen Milner, managing director of UK online centres, told E-Government Bulletin the projects should look beyond giving people internet access: “Getting online is not an end in itself – you get online in order to do things, and we need to make sure that people are supported, inspired and motivated to benefit from the flexibility and convenience of online government services.”

Helen Milner, explains: "It is at grassroots level where digital inclusion happens, and where it is made to reach the most deeply excluded - and it is at grassroots level where the credit crunch has bitten the hardest. It was therefore obvious to us that the majority of the £30m announced by Gordon Brown should go to grassroots providers in the form of grants in order to extend their work, and support even more people to get online. I'm delighted we've been able to get that first round of grant funding off the ground so quickly.

Helen Milner said the response to the first grant funding round had been "phenomenal", adding: "Local authorities play a key role in the grant funding process. At least 40 per cent of bids have come from libraries and adult education centres, many of which are managed centrally by council teams who put together applications and coordinate activity. "I'd like to see more local authorities developing relationships with smaller community organisations too. By doing so they can help support the long term sustainability of centres which support marginalised or excluded groups, ensuring the best possible digital inclusion service for their areas."

• Multi-million Pound Boost For Grassroots Digital Inclusion

The concept of "voting navigators" is mainly a web-based tool to provide an easy overview of parties, politicians ans their programs. The idea is not to tell the voter how to vote, but to offer quick access to information helping the user to distinguish between the positions of the parties.  Their goal is to increase voter turnout and to find new, innovative ways of motivating people to use their right to vote.

According to the "Modern Democracy" magazine, about 20 voting navigators exist in USA, Israel and Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, United Kingdom)

• Presentation of EUProfiler during the last eDemocracy Forum
• The Wahl-o-mat website
• French Regional elections

If testbeds will be encouraged to develop new uses, the Chairman of the FCC considers that putting digital health in the hands of doctors and hospitals across the country should remove geographic barriers for patients treatment.

The objective is to provide 100 million households at a minimum of 100 megabits per second (Mbs) to make America "the world's largest market of high-speed broadband users" and ensuring new businesses are "created in America and stay in America".

• Read the post of Julius Genachowski

Concerned website must keep all information identifying a person who take the responsability for the publication for a period of six months after the end of the election period.

The Bill is supported by the two major Australian parties, labour (left) and the Liberal Party (right). After several days of controversy,  South Australia’s Attorney-General Michael Atkinson admits he misjudged public opinion on the state’s attempt to curb political comment on the internet.

More information:

• Opposition unite to gag internet election debate (Adelaidenow.com)
• South Australia backs down on Internet comment curb (Infowars)