Growing PEP-NET: Five new Associate Members
22. July 2008 – 16:37 by Rolf LuehrsPEP-NET welcomes five new associate members (in alphabetical order):
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 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 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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