From the DoWire Consult online community of practice ... Subject: [Consult] Webinar on E-Participation: TID+ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:51:07 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew Glencross <<email obscured>> For those interested in cutting-edge research on e-participation I would like to extend the following invitation for a webinar on Friday 27 June, 10am-12 CEST. Here are the details: TID+, e-tools for active citizen participation Join us for a Webinar on June 27 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/516244624 e-Participation, or the use of ICT to broaden and deepen political participation by enabling citizens to connect with one another and with their elected representatives, is a concept that is much more difficult to implement than it is to understand. With the development of the TID+ project, citizens and officials are handed a tool that is based on seven years of practical experience. The main result of TID+, a project part-financed by the European Union, is a FOSS software tool that that can be used to organise citizen-driven e-participation. We will tell you more about the project and we'll provide a short demonstration. There will be ample opportunity for you to ask questions and enter into discussion. The webinar will be hosted from the European University Institute in Florence using the GoToWebinar service. Audio will be Skypecasted. You can find all background information considering the project and this webinar on www.tidplus.net The webinar is projected to last for 1 hour 30 minutes. To allow for technical difficulties and for follow-up discussion, the webinar venue will be open longer. Please note that Skypecasting only works with a stable (non-beta) version of Skype installed in a Windows environment. Title: TID+, e-tools for active citizen participation Date: Friday, June 27, 2008 Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM CEST System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista Macintosh-based attendees Required: Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) or newer
Thank you Ella Taylor-Smith, International Teledemocracy Centre, for the tip. - Steve P.S. Cross-posted to the small -practitioner- focused online community of practice started by Tom Steinberg at: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/europe From: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/egovernment/policy/eparticipation/information_day/index_en.htm Or: http://tinyurl.com/6hggnm Information Day on the eParticipation Call for Proposals 2008 An Information Day was held on the eParticipation Preparatory Action Call for Proposals on 20th May 2008. Please find below the documentation. The formal adoption of the work programme and the launch of the call is expected early June. The information and documents given below regarding the Call are only provisional and may be subject to change. What More Information Page Updated 30/05/2008 Call opens provisionally early June Call closed 29 August 2008, at 17:00 hours (Brussels local time) tbc Budget 5 million Euro Documentation For information about the Call 2008, read the draft documentation below: Call Documents Download Draft 2008 workprogramme ~ 312kb Draft evaluation guide ~ 333kb Draft guide for applicants ~ 501kb Information day agenda Information day presentations Presentations by the Commission Download Introduction to eParticipation and eGovernance - Dave Broster, HoU H2 ~ 1,5MB 2008 Work Programme-Thanassis Chrissafis & Sally Taylor ~ 552kb The Guide for Applicants and Contractual Aspects - Willy van Puymbroeck, HoU H5 ~ 1MB The Guide for Evaluation - Priit Ojamaa ~ 531kb Presentations by external participants Download Anna Triantafillou, MOMENTUM (description of the current eParticipation projects) ~ 4,5MB Andrea Schnabl, Technische Universität Wien ~419kb Ferran Cabrer i Vilagut, CONSEN AT CONSEN.org ~ 418kb Prepare & Submit a Proposal Paper submission only! Option Comment Action Offline Preparation / Paper Submissions Pre-registration is recommended The pre-registration should be done by e-mail to the address below. The pre-registration should include the name of the contact person for the proposal, the acronym of the proposal, the full title of the proposal and the language in which the full proposal will be submitted. Applicants are kindly requested to submit their pre-registration, by at the latest, to the following email address: <email obscured> Assistance Contact: <email obscured> Timetable Dates Description 29 August 2008, at 17:00 hours (Brussels local time) tbc Close call (Proposals must be received by the European Commission by this deadline) September 2008 Evaluation of proposals (assisted by independent experts) October/November 2008 Communication of selection results to proposers and start of negotiations by 31st December 2008 Grant agreement signatures December 2008/January 2009 Projects start after grant agreement signatures
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Hi All, Happy New Year to you - I thought this event might interest some of you. all the best,
Thanks to those attending the BerlinInAugust unconference in August 2007 a new pan-Europe online exchange for democracy online practitioners is being launched along side the international online communities of practice and UK and Ireland E-Democracy Exchange. Please join now and stay tuned for an introductory messages from Tom Steinberg with mySociety.Org in the UK. In addition to the UK and Ireland exchange - http://groups.dowire.org/groups/ukie - the two most active online international communities of practice are: * Online Consultations, Dialogues, and E-Participation - http://groups.dowire.org/groups/consult * E-Democracy and E-Government Researchers Network - http://groups.dowire.org/groups/research Cross-posting to multiple forums on DoWire Groups is highly discouraged.