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6. October 2009 – 09:27 by Rolf Luehrs
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The PEP-NET blog has developed very well in the recent months. However, we believe that there is still room for improvement. One thing we have now addressed is multilingualism.
There are several reasons for this enhancement: First of all we are convinced that (e-) participation is in most cases dealing with local or regional issues. There are amazing projects we will never hear about on this blog because the involved or responsible parties do not feel comfortable to write about them in English.
Secondly public administrations are as well focused on their local, regional or national themes. The motivation for many of them to join our international network is currently not strong enough. This hopefully changes if they could communicate about their experiences and demands in their own language and also exchange opinions among each other.
Finally, we are an European network and what is more typical for Europe than all the different languages we are talking in – for the good and the bad.
We are nevertheless hoping (and confident:) that most of the contributions will still be posted or translated in English. Our partner ASAEL has shown that this is possible. But it is no longer mandatory. To prevent us ending up in the Confusion of Tongues, we have provided little flags in the top right corner where our readers may choose to read postings in all or only in particular languages.
We started with Spanish/ English since up to now postings have only been written in these two languages. But we will add other flags as soon as our members are starting to use them.
Feedback is highly appreciated
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22. July 2008 – 16:37 by Rolf Luehrs
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PEP-NET welcomes five new associate members (in alphabetical order):
Asociación Ciudades Kyosei
The spanish-based association, the “Asociación Ciudades Kyosei” aims to provide a free non-partisan environment to foster municipal civic participation. NGOs, citizens, civil servants, politicians & media will be provided with tools to communicate, discuss, carry out participatory processes, coordinate internal work, etc. This environment, whose name is Kyosei-Polis, will provide e-Participation tools to any organization -first of all: public authorities- willing to involve citizens to work for the “common good”.
Center for E-Government - Danube University Krems
The Centre for E-Government at the Danube Unvierstiy Krems,Austria is a leading Austrian competence centre for education in E-Government and related disciplines, including law, organisational theory and information technology.We focus on post-graduate education and
reaserch in the areas within and related to E-Government.
The centre for E-Government has been conducting research in the area of eParticipation for a number of years, including the following projects:
- Youth Participation Project mitmachen.at
- Youth Participatin Project jugend2help.gv.at (ongoing)
- Enhancing Western Balkan e-Government Expertise (ongoing)
- Responsible for the Working Group E-Democracy and E-Particiaption at
- the Austrian Chancellery
Gov2U
Gov2U was conceived and founded in 2005 as a non-profit, non-
governmental organization by a group of visionary professionals from
the fields of Legislative Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) and community activism aiming to develop tools that facilitate
the everyday work of elected officials and that offer citizens a
greater stake in political discourse by enabling them to contribute
their ideas, suggestions, and opinions.
International Teledemocracy Centre, Napier University (ITC)
Working closely with governments, parliaments and NGOs across Europe and worldwide, ITC has established an international reputation as a research centre that combines relevant software engineering applications with political and sociological analysis.
ITCs remit is to research and apply information and communication technologies to enhance and support the democratic decision-making processes.
Public-i
Public-i is a privately owned company focused on democratic engagement and advise Local Authorities on the effective use of multimedia and webcasting. Public-i helps Local Authorities in 8 European countries to create and deliver audiovisual content that really makes an impact in the local
community.
In case your organisation considers a PEP-NET membership as well, please do not hesitate to contact us. Just drop us a note (luehrs@pep-net.eu or feil@pep-net.eu ) and we will contact you soon.
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29. May 2008 – 07:48 by christophdowe-politik-digital.de
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Part of the Pep-Net project is to make good examples of projects more visible. e-participation.net is part of the new european network Pep-Net and collects data about participatory online projects. Is your best practice example included already? Do you know of more examples? To report new examples just fill in the box at the right column - we only need the URL! The data will be delivered to an editor at politik-digital.de where a short description of the website will be written. If you want, you can also send us more information.
The website, built by politik-digital.de and the British Council Germany about one year ago, already consists of a database of about 200 projects. Now its time to include some more examples from other countries! Before launch, the partners had published a short study (PDF) in 2006, comparing the state of the art of e-Democracy in Germany and the United Kingdom (”Facilitating active Citizenship. E-Participation in the United Kingdom and Germany”).
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1. May 2008 – 06:00 by Bengt Feil
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May 1st has been set as the official launch date of the Pan European eParticipation Network. With that date having arrived we looking forward to working with our initial partners and everybody joining us on our way.
In the next years we will try to advance the participatory efforts in Europe and to build a open and strong network including members from all stakeholders active in the field.
As PEP-NET is all about exchange of knowledge and the will to further develop eParticipation in Europe we ask everyone to join our conversation both online and offline.
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