Proposal for an E-Government Architecture - Bozho's tech blog

Open Source for the Government [presentation] - Bozho's tech blog

A month ago I gave a talk at OpenFest (a Bulgarian conference for open technologies). The talk was in Bulgarian, but I’ve translated the slides, so here they are. Currently,Continue reading

A Software Engineer As a High-Level Government Adviser - Bozho's tech blog

Two months ago I took the job of adviser to the cabinet of the deputy prime minister of my country (the Republic of Bulgaria, an EU member). And I’d likeContinue reading

Bulgarian Government Now Requires Custom Software to be Open Source

The Bulgarian government has just passed an amendment to its Electronic Governance Act that mandates all custom software created for the government must be open source. The amendment was voted on i…

The Specification Is Not a Document - The Phoenix Architecture

Imagine joining a software project a few years from now. It is a large, mature system. It has thousands of business rules, years of operational experience,…

About Eurosky

Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure

Scoping report: Future challenges to democracy | CoP CC on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy

The report from the European Commission identifies 10 key challenges and emerging trends impacting European democratic systems and suggests future policy options. These challenges are structured across three interconnected levels: citizens and societal dynamics, the information and knowledge environment, and institutions and the democratic system. This framework aims to provide a comprehensive and integrated view of democracy as a connected ecosystem, emphasising how challenges in one area can affect the entire system.

Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

Blueprint for information revolution.

Human-Computer Insurrection: Notes on an Anarchist HCI

As part of the Digital Library's transition to Open Access, new features for researchers are available in the Premium Edition. Click here to learn more.

Modular Politics: Toward a Governance Layer for Online Communities

Governance in online communities is an increasingly high-stakes challenge, and yet many basic features of offline governance legacies--juries, political parties, term limits, and formal debates, to name a few--are not in the feature-sets of the software most community platforms use. Drawing on the paradigm of Institutional Analysis and Development, this paper proposes a strategy for addressing this lapse by specifying basic features of a generalizable paradigm for online governance called Modular Politics. Whereas classical governance typologies tend to present a choice among wholesale ideologies, such as democracy or oligarchy, Modular Politics would enable platform operators and their users to build bottom-up governance processes from computational components that are modular and composable, highly versatile in their expressiveness, portable from one context to another, and interoperable across platforms. This kind of approach could implement pre-digital governance systems as well as accelerate innovation in uniquely digital techniques. As diverse communities share and connect their components and data, governance could occur through a ubiquitous network layer. To that end, this paper proposes the development of an open standard for networked governance.

Open Exchange Architecture

A specification for representing scientific documents and their components as structured objects.

Open Exchange Architecture

A specification for representing scientific documents and their components as structured objects.