MOMENTUM: The “Invisible Hand” of eParticipation in Europe

17. May 2009 – 14:55 by POLITECH

 

The e-Participation Action, a three-year initiative of the European Parliament, was launched by the European Commission in 2006.

 

Its main objective was to close the “Democratic Deficit” of the European Institutions using ICT (Information and Communication Technologies).

 

21 projects have been co-funded by European Commission. Amongst them a Specific Support Action entitled MOMENTUM (Monitoring, coordinating and promoting the European Union eParticipation projects and initiatives) to monitor, disseminate and provide with a feedback the existing and on ongoing eParticipation projects.

 

In other words MOMENTUM can be described as the “invisible hand” of

eParticipation Action in Europe. It has grown stronger as a connecting network of ideas, innovations and good practices in Europe.

 

The various supported projects are using different innovative technologies as visual argumentation (i.e. WAVE https://www.wave-project.eu), ePetition tools (i.e. eMPOWER https://www.ep-empower.eu), Web 2.0 social networking tools

(i.e CitizenScape https://www.citizenscape.org/).

 

These projects are also tackeling various policy issues from climate change (i.e. U@MareNostrum https://www.uatmarenostrum.eu ) to the EU smoking policy (i.e. Demos@Work https://www.demosatwork.org) or regional issues (i.e. VOICE  https://www.give-your-voice.eu  and VOICES https://www.give-your-voice.eu).

 

MOMENTUM enable these projects to collaborate and exchange in the best way as possible, by providing project with information, network of experts and an out-of-the-box global overview of eParticipation.

 

For more information, please visit: www.ep-momentum.eu

 

Viktoria Nioradze

Politech Institute