Intervento di Rolf Luhrs, Coordinatore di PEP-NET, in occasione dell’iniziativa “E-democracy 2.0. Istituzioni, cittadini, nuove reti: un lessico possibile” [Bologna, 8 aprile 2009].
3. DEMOS – The Origin
BOLOGNA January / February 2002
Hamburg November 2002
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4. DEMOS – Application Examples in Germany
Family Discourses in:
• Hamburg
• Munich
• Berlin
Participatory Budgeting in:
• Hamburg
• Freiburg
Urban Planning:
• Recreation of Hamburg’s Domplatz
• Living Bridge Hamburg
• Relocation University of Hamburg
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5. DEMOS – Application Examples in Europe
Issues:
• legislative issues Cybermoor
Alston
• environment issues
• health and safety at work
• evaluation and optimisation
Vorarlberg
of eServices
• regional planning
Valencia Thessaloniki
Toskana
Massa
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6. The eParticipation „net“
Solution
Citizens
providers
eParticipation eParticipation
Is… Is…
eParticipation eParticipation
Is… Is…
Public Scientists and
administrations Researchers
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7. Main objectives of the project
• Creating cross-border links between local and/or
regional eParticipation projects
• Developing a network of expertise, sharing experiences,
approaches and tools, raising awareness and contributing
actively to the European good practice exchange portal and
other eParticipation activities
• Create awareness for the topic among all relevant
stakeholders
• Building synergies with actions supported in particular by
the Commission concerning the Information Society and
Regional development policies.
• Facilitate cooperation and business relationships among the
members
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8. Spread of partners over Europe
• 20 founding
members
• 16 associate
members
• In talks with over
20 interested parties
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9. Method of network growth
• start with 20 partners
(Scattered Fragments)
• 30 partners after 12
month
(from Single-Hub
to Multi-Hub)
• 45 partners after
24 months
(Multi-Hub)
• 70 partners at the end
of the project duration
(Core/ Periphery)
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10. The planned network development
Number of partners
100
90 42
80 36
70 29
Actual development
60
Planned development
50
24
40
18
30 12
6 m onths
20
10
0 Project duration Estimated further development
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11. Four building blocks
• The PEP-NET weblog
• Will be established as „the“ source for news and insights on
all topics of the network.
• At least 20 new articles per month
• Online consultations
• At least three Europe wide online consultations will be held
by and analysed by PEP-NET
• Different methological and technical solutions for this task
are availible though the networks members
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12. Four building blocks
• Active involvement of PEP-NET partners in all relevant conferences,
workshops which are concerned with the topic of eParticipation
• The hosts of the World Forum on e- Democracy an the
annual eDemocracy Conference in London are PEP-NET
partners
• Completion of all important databases describing European
good practice for eParticipation
• epractice.eu
• e-participation.net
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