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Test the citizen engagement platform at www.public-policies.eu: STEP 3
Once a problem’s page is generated, any person interested in the problem in question can offer a solution, filling in the “solution form” at the bottom of the page. The scoop is for the problem to receive as many solutions as possible. These are filtered according to the three criteria (valuable, feasible and sustainable) by [...]
February 8, 2010
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Test the citizen engagement platform at www.public-policies.eu: STEP 2
Once the “Problem identification form” is submitted and an administrator aproves it,Ā a script generatesĀ the “Problem’s page” as seen in the picture below.Ā Ā At the top, there is the name of the category of the problem, the title of the problem and a āshareā widget that allows for easier dissemination over the Internet. The body of the [...]
January 31, 2010
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Test the citizen engagement platform at www.public-policies.eu: STEP 1
The online citizen engagement platform available at www.public-policies.eu allows you to publish a problem of European public concern and offer your solutions to the problems already published. We are currently testing the work thatĀ the programmers haveĀ done so far and invite youĀ to check it out. We are interested in the overall feeling of the participation experience. [...]
January 24, 2010
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“Democracy is fulfilling dreams” officially accepted for competition
The two-minute clip “Democracy is fulfilling dreams” has been officially accepted for competitionĀ in the Democracy Video Challenge 2010 and is up for Round 1.Ā It is also now live on the contest page, at http://www.youtube.com/democracychallenge. Here is what follows next (Source: the rules of the contest):
Round 1: Contest Sponsors will evaluate Video Submissions at the [...]
January 20, 2010
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My video for the Democracy Video Challenge 2010: Democracy is fulfilling dreams
The challenge is to create a short video that completes the phrase “Democracy is …” Winners will be selected from every continent to meet in the United States. It took me all day to interview 16 people about their dreams, create the clip and register it in the contest. It was fun, though pretty tiresome. [...]
January 17, 2010
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Invitation to test the participation platform on www.Public-Policies.eu
This post is indeed an invitation to anybody interested in the field of āparticipative democracy.ā I am developing the citizen engagement platform āpublic policies made by citizensā together with partners from Romania, Italy, France and Greece. We managed to win a grant from the European Commission’s Youth in Action Programme. My first important deadline for [...]
January 7, 2010
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Candidez.ro (I run for office) is my project proposal in the Aspen Institute’s Young Leaders Program
Once I finished the Aspen Institute’s Young Leaders Program in December 2009, I proposed a community project called “Candidez.ro (I run for office), easier to run for office, more informed voting.” Hereās a short presentation of it:
Problem: Professionals or technocrats in general and young people in particular, do not have enough resources to run for [...]
December 20, 2009
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Moderated the works of the Central European Initiative Youth Forum in Bucharest
During October 19-22, 2009, the Romanian Presidency of the Central European Initiative (CEI) hosted The 9th CEI Youth Forum, Supporting Youth Access on Labor Markets.
The CEI was established in 1989 as an intergovernmental forum for political, economic and cultural co-operation among its Member States. It is composed of 18 Member States: Albania, Austria, Belarus, [...]
October 24, 2009
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Third day of the Swedish Conference, the “Opinion Square”
The third day of the Conference was productive in terms of policy ideas. The “Opinion Square” is a wonderful tool to give feedback on all the issues that the 10 working groups discussed. To be short, every working group presented their policy ideas on a board. We all moved around and endorsed or not the [...]
September 21, 2009
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Second day of the Swedish Conference, marathon of policy ideas.
The second day of the Swedish Conference on Future EU Cooperation in the Youth Field started with key messages of important stakeholders on youth policies:
The Swedish Minister for Youth Affairs, Ms. Nyamko Sabuni, emphasized the need for a new and improved framework of EU cooperation in the youth field for the period 2009 – 2018. [...]
September 15, 2009
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