Jure Cuhalev

Posts Tagged ‘Politics

28 Jan, 2012

Visualizing Slovenian coalition agreement

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: visualization

With the election of new Slovenian prime minister we also got formal release of a Coalition agreement. Since it’s a 72 page document, I was wondering what keywords would stand out. Here is the result:
While we’re at it, we can also take a look at the coalition agreement that Pozitivna Slovenija prepared. As we run [...]

Image by fataetoile /Cinzia via Flickr
What is political participation:
 

Collaborate for a common constructive objective
Practice and defend freedom of speech
Freely meet and engage with people and causes
Discuss in order to obtain census
Engage in non-economic initiatives
Consume with responsibility
Watch the watchers
[and much more..]

 
Voting from time to time is also a form of political participation.
 
What’s the political participation with [...]

22 Mar, 2008

Lessig’s new CC and Slovenia

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas|Planet Kiberpipa|Planet LiveCD

Lawrence Lessig, founding father of Creative Commons, announced his new initiative – change-congress.org. It’s an idea to promote basic reform of United States Congress and fundamental principles that in reality steer it – corporate money. The campaign is using basic technological tools like Google Maps mash-up, together with Wiki’s and pledges to start building public [...]