Rollups for the 4 national citizen engagement platfoms serving "SMART Method of Public Policy" in Romania, France, Italy, and Greece

The international workshop “Public Policies Made by Citizens,” financed by the European Commission, has ended. The European citizen engagement platform available at www.public-policies.eu, as well as the national citizen engagement platforms for Romania (www.politicipublice.ro), Italy (www.politiche-pubbliche.it), France (www.politiquespubliques.fr), and Greece (www.public-policies.gr) have been tested and are now ready to be used. However, we have yet to do the content of the menus. Here’s the result of our work in terms of problems and solutions posted:

• www.public-policies.eu: 10 problems and 13 solutions
• www.politicipublice.ro: 18 problems and 31 solutions
• www.politiquespubliques.fr: 2 problems and 1 solution
• www.politiche-pubbliche.it: 4 problems
• www.public-policies.gr: 3 problems

Every platform serves “SMART Method of Public Policy.” The most difficult parts are to define the problem of public concern and to offer a valuable, feasible and sustainable solution to it. So….a big hand to the participants!

Public Policies Made by Citizens (Europe)

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 this year is to have it ready by February 1. So, here’s what I invite you to do:

1. First, choose any problem of European concern and make sure you know how to explain it.
2. Then, go to www.public-policies.eu and click on the “Raise a problem” link (let me know if it is easy to find).
3. In the next step, fill out the form, click “Add” and let me know if it is reasonably easy to publish the problem.
4. Once the problem is approved by me, you will receive an email. Please, let me know if you receive that email and if you like it.
5. Visit the page of the problem and let me know if it has a coherent layout, which is easy to understand and use.

Now, start doing some outreach using the “SHARE” widget, to have friends or just other people post solutions to your problem, filling in the online form from the problem’s page.

This would be all for the moment. The entire method of participation is explained in the menu, under “SMART Method of Public Policy” at www.public-policies.eu.