Participative Democracy
Participation events that I attend or promote. Success stories and projects that I endorse.
- Participative Democracy, SMART Method of Public Policy, Training Courses and Seminars, Young Entrepreneurs Association
End of Project in Cudalbi, Galati County
We are finishing one of the most important projects from the past years, that brought many benefits to an entire village from Galati county. We offered social, medical, economical and educational services to…
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Pepperdine’s Outstanding Alumni Abroad
Pepperdine University unveiled its outstanding alumni abroad. It is by far the most valuable honor I have received for the work I am conducting in supporting entrepreneurship and citizen engagement. The selection committee…
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Perestroika of the Romanian public institutions
Sometimes there is no need to reinvent the wheel. This is also the case with the Romanian public institutions that are failing us. As I am reading ways to reinvent government, David Osborne…
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Georgia State (United States) more committed to ethics in government than Romania
Georgia’s state and local governments are more committed to protecting their citizens from possible unethical behavior of their public officials than the Romanian authorities. At the state level, Georgia has an Ethics Commission…
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Working in ethics reform
Part of my line of work at Common Cause Georgia, United States is to assist in the development of a local government ethics board. Ethics seems to be something that everybody talks about…
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The birth of a great program!
Community Solutions Program 2011 The Community Solutions Program (CSP) kicked-off with an orientation meeting in Washington, DC, United States. Inspired by President Barack Obama’s experience as a community activist in Chicago, the program…
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Why don’t citizens participate? (part 2)
People do not participate in the life of their community trying to influence decision makers to implement solutions to problems of public concern, due to reasons that include lack of success stories of…
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I have launched the training ENGAGEMENT
The training “ENGAGEMENT” combines theoretical and practical elements of public policy analysis with theoretical and practical elements of participative democracy. It is ideal for organizations that have members who want to engage in…
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Recommendations to promote access to e-participation
The recommendations below are aimed at making e-participation more important in generating change in the community. They are the result of the working group on “promoting access to e-participation” organized within the Expert…
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Seminar on e-Participation unfolding in Budapest, Hungary
During June 14-18 I am attending the Expert Meeting on New Ways of Participation in Multicultural Youth Work Based on Information and Communication Technologies. The seminar is organized by the Council of Europe…
