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PEP-NET newsletter Issue 2, 30 November 2009

30. April 2009 – 16:40 by Bengt Feil (TuTech Innovation GmbH)

Dear readers,

This is the second issue of the PEP-NET newsletter. This newsletter contains:

- A look back at this year’s conference marathon

- Upcoming events

- Selected articles from the PEP-NET blog

The conference marathon

The last two months have been busy for the European eParticipation community with a series of important events taking place all over Europe. PEP-NET members were present at these events and are reporting back in a number of articles on the blog:

- The eGovernment Ministerial conference took place in Malmoe. The results of this event will have major impact on the next years of development in eGovernment and eParticipation.

- Alongside the eGovernment Ministerial conference the first popular eGovernment Unconference took place.

- The first Personal Democracy Forum Europe was held in Barcelona and Rolf Luehrs shares his thoughts on the event.

- PEP-NET hosted a session and a workshop at the Future-Democracy 09 in London.

- Renate Mitterhuber shares here thoughts on the Gartner Symposium/ITXPO 2009 in Cannes.

- The empowerment of women online has been the topic of an interview done by Rolf Luehrs at the World e-Democracy Forum.

Upcoming events

The month of December is much quieter when it comes to conferences. However there is one interesting eParticipation event: On December 15th the Momentum team will host the eParticipation Conference: Current State of Play & Future Directions in Brussels. Furthermore the call for papers for the EDem conference in May 2010 in Krems has been published.

Selected articles from the PEP-NET blog

Adapting to climate change using eParticipation?

The tools of eParticipation are not restricted to participation in political processes but can also be used in other contexts. An example is the Klimzug Nord project in Germany which aims at developing strategies to adapt to climate change in metropolitan areas and incorporates affected citizens and organisations through the use of online tools.

Read the whole article

(e) Participatory Budgeting in Germany

Like in other European countries participatory budgeting is one of the most prominent examples of citizen participation in politics in Germany. More than 115 municipalities or cities are currently about to implement or have already implemented participatory budgeting projects. This article provides an overview of the development and the situation in Germany.

Read the whole article

10 principles for a Public Administration 2.0

The Italian discourse about the need for public administrations to embrace the possibilities of ICT has produced a very interesting list of ten key principles for the modern and connected public administration.

Read the 10 principles here.

Managing opensource for e-participation

eParticipation tools are developed under many different circumstances and you can find sophisticated open source solutions among them. This article poses and answers a series of questions related to the use of opensource software in eParticipation.

Read the whole article.

All the best from: