In our last blogpost on social media and migration we reflected on the question how social media initiatives have empowered and facilitated migrant communities in the past few years. The report was based on a round table we organized with different pioneers and stakeholders. We found that initiatives play a role in connecting Diaspora and [...]

On October 28-29 we wille close off the Digital Pioneers programme with the State of Social Media Summit in TrouwAmsterdam. In preparation of and during the Summit, we examine the impact of small-scale Internet projects and organizations, how they affect the media landscape and the challenges such organizations face in the future.
The Summit will be [...]

Last June 18th. we organised a round table session on social media and migration. Migrant media projects are one of the interesting clusters of projects supported by the Digital Pioneers Fund in the past few years. We decided that is was time to think about the state of migrant media as it is now [...]

As mentioned earlier on this blog, one of the interesting clusters of projects supported by the Digital Pioneers Fund consists of projects that contribute to the participation of citizens in political and policy issues. In the last two blogposts on this topic, we focused on the rise of what we called ‘open governance’ [...]

How have Open Governance initiatives activated participation of citizens in politics, government and governance? Hereby a first attempt to answer this question. In our search for the state of Open Governance we can define three ways in which initiatives try to engage citizens with politics and government. These three clusters provide for three different [...]