Whiles there has been a drive by some governments to promote the internet usage by parliamentarians, questions exist on the measure of interactivity and alignment of these new technologies with roles of parliamentarians. In UK, the government funded civic blogging platform, Read My Day, to enable councillors blog (Wright, 2008). However, the blogs are argued … Continue reading
The information economy has led to different forms of participation, access and collaboration. Within development circles these themes have been associated with development birthing concepts like open development, openness and development, open access among others. However the question is what is openness and what its development – is there any conceptual link? Some argue that … Continue reading