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The 2008 World Forum on e-democracy and e-government was held in Issy-les-Moulineaux on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 October 2008.
 
This year the theme was "Europe and the challenges of e-Government 2.0."
 
The discussions have focused on the European agenda, because of the French presidency of the EU and Franco-German due to the years of Franco-German ICT.
 
Trophy Forum 2008: Andrew Rasiej, TechPresident.com
The trophy of the World Forum was presented to Andrew Rasiej, president and founder of TechPresident.com.
 
Here the project proposed by the official website of e-Democracy Forum
"Since its launch in February 2007, the blog TechPresident.com following the net-American election campaign on a daily basis and covers the whole range of online web sites, mailing lists, online ads, videos, social networks, etc.. His online newsletter, the Daily Digest, "has become an essential source for journalists, bloggers and activists in America.
Its founder, Andrew RASIEJ, is a social entrepreneur who founded the "Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and a community site bringing together the actors of politics and technology. He advised several American parliamentarians in the field of information technology and communication, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Dick Gephardt and chaired the Technology Advisory Board "of Howard Dean during the Democratic primary in 2004 . It is also behind the creation of "NetGuard", which, modeled on the National Guard, may intervene in the event of a serious crisis, to restore communication links.
Andrew Rasiej founded in 1997, the project MOUSE (Making Opportunities for Upgrading Schools and Education) to accelerate the technological equipment of schools and training students. The system is operational in a hundred schools of New York City and more than 90% of students have been trained have left the system with a graduation. Mr. Rasiej has participated, in 2001, the task force Service of Education of New York to reduce the digital divide in the city. "
www.techpresident.com
 
 
International Trophy - PoliticsOnline: Barack Obama
PoliticsOnline Trophy was awarded to Joe Smallhoover, President of Democrats Abroad in France mybarackobama.com
 
Here the project proposed by the official website of e-Democracy Forum
"The Democratic candidate in the presidential election on November 4 was rewarded for his Internet strategy, including its site mybarackobama.com campaign. Barack Obama is the first to have collected so much money and have mobilized so many people in the history of U.S. presidential campaigns. Since the launch of its candidacy for Democratic primary, it has established an almost perfect combination of a great field organization and strong capacity to mobilize the Internet. The main difference from the past is the organization "cells" semi-autonomous. An approach that allowed him to collect more than $ 275 million through millions of small donors via the Internet. "
www.mybarackobama.com
 
 
European trophy - Politech: The PSOE
The Spanish Workers Socialist Party won an award for its website (European trophy-Politech)
 
  Here the project proposed by the official website of the Forum e-Democracy
"The European Institute Politech measure quality of service of European political sites. With an index of 33/40 and Politech index IP-Label 13.5 / 20, the website of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party has achieved the highest score in the European index of e-Democracy (77.5 100). The site of the PSOE (www.psoe.es) is not only well built. It was also a reflection of the strategy in which the values of e-participation are fundamental. By installing in cyberspace the average citizen with the most recent of the Web, including Web 2.0 tools (YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, Facebbok, Google Maps, podcasts, RSS feds, blogs), the PSOE is in the process of show the potential of the Internet in postmodern democracies. "
www.psoe.es
 
 
France Trophy Club Hyper Republic: the Nord-Pas de Calais - DREAM +
 
Alexandre Desrousseaux, chargé de mission ICT, Local and Regional Democracy in Nord Pas de Calais was awarded for the project DREAM + (France Trophy Club Hyper Republic).
 
Here the project proposed by the official website of e-Democracy Forum
"Through the project DREAM +, the Regional Council Nord - Pas de Calais offers several ways to support local institutions on the job they do or they could make digital tools in the service of a more open democracy and participatory cycle of seminars, call for applications for the granting of 10 half-day a group of expert providers to help design a proposed addition of ICT for the actions of local democracy, call for projects to a grant (up to 20 k euros and 60% of the total cost) to support advocacy of ICT in the actions of local democracy. "
To see video on the blog "LeBlog2Roubaix.