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Rolf Luehrs

Hamburg, Germany

Heading the Department for Interactive Communication at TuTech Innovation GmbH, a subsidiary of the Technical University in the city of Hamburg, I am concerned with eParticipation, eDemocracy and eGovernment for almost a decade. Since May 2008 I am coordinating the Pan European eParticipation Network (www.pep-net.eu). As a social scientist I am interested in both, the practical aspects of the “Connected Republic” as well as its theoretical analysis.

Rolf Luehrs is at home at http://www.pep-net.eu/wordpress.

Recently, Rolf Luehrs...

  • created So much e-participation. But how much e-democracy? over 2 years ago.

    Roberto Zarro wrote about the seminar “E-democracy 2.0: Institutions, citizens and new networks: a potential lexicon” which has been organised by Emilia-Romagna Region, with the partnership of PEP-NET and the scientific collaboration of the University of Bergamo. His summary is definitely worth a read! One of his interesting points concerned the (lack of) speed of public institutions: “Common sense is full of sentences highlighting the importance to be slow to make wise choi...

  • commented on Discussion: eParticipation in Europe over 2 years ago.

    Thanks Paul, much appreciated. I will follow up as the discussion evolves. There is also a feedback forum to give us hints on how to improve the plattform. Bests, Rolf

  • created Discussion: eParticipation in Europe over 2 years ago.

    Today an Internet discussion starts about the current state and future developments of eParticipation in Europe. It has been organised and will be moderated jointly by PEP-NET (Pan European eParticipation Network)  and the European eParticipation Study. Issues to be debated are: Existing and emerging technologies, channels, bottom-up vs top down, dangers, European public sphere, EU cooperation with other actors, EU learning experience, changes in nature of politics and institutions. P...

  • commented on War and Web 2.0 over 3 years ago.

    Glad you liked it, Paul. PEP-NET has created a friendfeed room to enable all of us to collect resources like that. For those of you who are not familiar with friendfeed: It is service to compile different RSS feeds and to share and rate links and bookmarks. There are currently a lot of feeds from the best eParticipation and eDemocracy blogs and websites included as well as selected bookmarks from delicious. The room is not designed as another discussion space but to create a stream of qu...

  • commented on War and Web 2.0 over 3 years ago.

    There is an excellent public diplomacy wiki on social media use by both of the conflict parties (http://publicdiplomacy.pbwiki.com/Gaza)