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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 Seminar New Ways of Participation in Multicultural Youth Work from Budapest, Council of Europe Youth Center, during June 14-18 2010. Good working [...]
June 22, 2010
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Tags: e-participation, generate social change, New Ways of Participation in Multicultural Youth Work, ways to promote access to e-participation · Posted in: 1 SMART Method of Public Policy, 2 Participative Democracy
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 at its Youth Centre in Budapest, Hungary. The aim is to bring policy makers, youth researchers, youth organizations and young people together [...]
June 15, 2010
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Tags: e-participation, enter project, multicultural youth work, new ways of participation, social rights, youth centre budapest · Posted in: 2 Participative Democracy
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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Tags: public policies, smart method, step 3 · Posted in: 1 SMART Method of Public Policy, 2 Participative Democracy
Test the citizen engagement platform at www.public-policies.eu: STEP 2
Once the “Problem identification form” is submitted and an administrator aproves it, a script generates the “Problem’s page” as seen in the picture below. At the top, there is the name of the category of the problem, the title of the problem and a “share” widget that allows for easier dissemination over the Internet. The body of the [...]
January 31, 2010
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Tags: public policies, smart method, step 2 · Posted in: 1 SMART Method of Public Policy, 2 Participative Democracy
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 that the programmers have done so far and invite you to check it out. We are interested in the overall feeling of the participation experience. [...]
January 24, 2010
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Tags: public policies, smart method, step 1 · Posted in: 1 SMART Method of Public Policy, 2 Participative Democracy
“Democracy is fulfilling dreams” officially accepted for competition
The two-minute clip “Democracy is fulfilling dreams” has been officially accepted for competition in the Democracy Video Challenge 2010 and is up for Round 1. 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 [...]
January 20, 2010
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Tags: democracy is ..., democracy is fulfilling dreams, democracy video challenge · Posted in: 2 Participative Democracy
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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Tags: democracy is fulfilling dreams, democracy video challenge, your video, your voice · Posted in: 2 Participative Democracy
Invitation to test the participation platform on www.Public-Policies.eu
This post is indeed an invitation to anybody interested in the field of “participative democracy.” I am developing the citizen engagement platform “public policies made by citizens” 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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Tags: participative democracy, public policies europe, public policies made by citizens, smart method of public policy · Posted in: 1 SMART Method of Public Policy, 2 Participative Democracy
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.” Here’s a short presentation of it: Problem: Professionals or technocrats in general and young people in particular, do not have enough resources to run [...]
December 20, 2009
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Tags: candidez, candidez.ro, radu aspen project · Posted in: 2 Participative Democracy
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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Tags: 9th cei youth forum, cei, youth access on labor market · Posted in: 2 Participative Democracy
