Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category

eParticipatory budgeting 2009 launched in Hamburg

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

On Tuesday (16.06.2009) the second participatory budgeting project has been launched in the city of Hamburg (1.8 million inhabitants). It can be found here: www.buergerhaushalt-hamburg.de The overall theme of the participation effort is to get citizens involved in the long term planning of the cities budget: How should money be ...

Luxembourg : a city turned to the e-future

Monday, June 15th, 2009

The e-city Coordination initiative, in partnership with other Luxembourgish municipalities, European cities, public bodies, associations, citizens and businesses, aims at providing multichannel e-services to citizens. The project coordinates ICT-projects along the line of the City of Luxembourg’s technological and strategic plan respecting its political and administrative interests. The e-City Coordination ...

EUROPE IS SURFING ON THE WAVE…

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Forums, blogs, and wikis are extensively used in current eParticipation sites to gather user opinions on particular issues. However, such forms of participation generally provide no structure to the information gathered, so opportunity for analysis of the opinions is limited. The WAVE project (Welcoming Argument Visualisation to Europe) https://www.wave-project.eu/ is part of the ...

BürgerForum Europa - a citizen´s dialogue about the future of Europe

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

The European Parliament will proclaim the United States of Europe? EU will grant basic financial security for all its citizens? After so many rejected referenda and strong suspicions against European politics, these ideas sound out of touch. However, they are just two examples from 16 solutions worked out by 361 ...

Power - Web 2.0 Participative Portals for Emilia-Romagna

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

The project is promoted by the Emilia-Romagna Region in the framework of its Telematic Plan, and realized by the Municipalities of Bologna, Ferrara, Modena, Piacenza and Reggio Emilia. The aim of the project is to understand, both with studies and analysis, both with tests, how much and in which ways ...

ASAEL LEADS A SEMINAR ABOUT YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN THE EUROPEAN FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE.

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

On April 29th, ASAEL held the Seminar “Youth Participation in Europe: fighting together against climate change”, in the Urban Environment room, la Calle Indiscreta, from 9am to 6pm. The Aragonese Association of Local Authorities (ASAEL), through the project “eCLAU”, approved under the European Program “Youth in Action”, has realized a seminar ...

MOMENTUM: The “Invisible Hand” of eParticipation in Europe

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

  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 ...

The dawning of “Modern Democracy”

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Finally our newest project has been released and delivered to our readers: The biannual free special interest magazine "Modern Democracy" by E-Voting.CC. As I have announced in an earlier entry we issued the first edition of our magazine dealing with selected topics in the field of E-Democracy and it's newest developments. ...

ASAEL LIDERA UN PROYECTO SOBRE LA PARTICIPACIÓN DE LOS JÓVENES Y LAS NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS EN LA LUCHA EUROPEA CONTRA EL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

ASAEL (Asociación Aragonesa de Entidades Locales), está desarrollando el proyecto “eCLAU” aprobado dentro del marco del Programa Europeo “Jóvenes en Acción”, cuya finalidad principal es la de potenciar la participación de los jóvenes a través de las Nuevas Tecnologías en la política medioambiental de la UE, en concreto en la ...

ASAEL LEADS A PROJECT ABOUT YOUTH ePARTICIPATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE CLIMATIC CHANGE

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

ASAEL (Aragonese Association of Local Authorities), is developing the “eCLAU” Project in the framework of “Youth in Action” European Programme, which principal aim is to promote youth participation within the utilization of New Technologies in the UE environmental policy, specifically in the fight against climatic change. The Project is being promoted ...