1. participatory governance
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2. the power of the crowd

3. some facts
 crowd (people) has power and wisdom
 70% of a decision for a product or procedure is made
from what others are saying (so we must get involved)
 participatory governance is an emerging method in
public and private sector
 crowdsourcing techniques is a distributed problem-
solving and production model
 these methods can solve problems and promote
solutions

4. scope
 we use internet technologies to get the crowd involved
 study the problem, design the procedure, implement
the solution, educate people and involvers
 design new implementations and scenarios
 two sectors for application
 public governance: check parties, formulate policies, non-
government actions, monitor governments work
 private sector: problem solving, corporate governance,
new products, company ethics code etc

5. public governance
 restore the relationship between people and power
 participation of the crowd to shape policies
 control the implementation of the mandate
 governments, local authorities, municipalities, special
state services etc

6. private sector
 proposals, comments, remarks etc for the corporate
governance and the internal procedures of an
organization / company
 new products and services
 feedback for products and services
 build audience – we listen to our clients, we pay
attention on their remarks, we improve our products
 get involved in the discussions for products and
services

7. who
 high experienced partners
 Theodoros Karounos, Head of Advisory Board
(@karounos)
 Michalis Psalidas, Managing Director (@psalidas)
 Giorgos Karamanolis, Chief Technical Officer
(@karamanolis)
 high qualified team
 great experience from public sector (open government
tasks in Greece)

8. past projects (some of them)
 opengov – http://www.opengov.gr
 di@vgeia – http://diavgeia.gov.gr
 geodata.gov.gr – http://geodata.gov.gr
 police on line - http://astynomia.gr
 illegalsigns.gov.gr – http://illegalsigns.gov.gr
 labs.opengov.gr – http://labs.opengov.gr
 open taxation data – http://gsis.gr
 open public administration – http://openpad.gov.gr
 stability program monitoring - http://antiproedros.gov.gr/

11. most recent project
 http://policymonitor.gr
 comparative presentation of the Greek parties by
policy
 crowdpolicy platform
 comments
 positive / negative voting
 new proposals
 social media integration
 project for Kathimerini (www.kathimerini.gr)

12. @
 www.crowdpolicy.org
 @crowdpolicy