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Welcome to the Conference-Wiki of berlin in july - eDemocracy summit 2008
The european e-participation-scene gathered in Berlin in August 2007 to identify future aspects of the growing field of e-democracy. 25 Participants from 13 countries discussed for two days in the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin (ehemaliges Staatsratsgebäude) what issues are emerging, discussed good and bad practices and tried to build up a network. The British Council Germany gave some funding for travel expenses.
On July 17th and 18th 2008 there has been a follow up. The British Council offered room, diegesellschafter.de and the Bertelsmann Stiftung did support the unconference. Tom Steinberg, mySociety.org, Christoph Dowe, politik-digital.de and Christian Heise, e-politik.de / e-demokratie.org were bound to be the inviting group. The group of guests included some of the last year guests as well as some new people; important new networks in the field will be informed about the meeting. In total, there were about 40 persons attending the unconference which was prepared, just as in the last year, through this wiki.
We would like to think with you about how to use the internet for better political communication between citizen and political institutions through online deliberation and consultation, and what tools could be built to help our democracies work better. Please add questions you'd like to see discussed in our Open Questions section.
The only real criteria for attendees: the desire and the determination to get things built that actually help citizens, rather than just talking about how great it could be if someone else did it :)
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Primary Conference Outputs
These links are the most tangible outputs of the conference for future reference and sharing, collaboratively authored by the attendees of BerlinInJuly
- Outputs (group work first day) on:
- 1.1 Funding, 1.2 How to cooperate with government, 1.3 eParticipation go areas
- 2.1 eDeliberation, eConsultation, eparticipation 2.2 Standards, Cooperation between eParticipation projects 2.3 EU call for proposals 2008 (no outputs generated)
- Fantastic Features Everyone Should Know About
- Online consultation and deliberation - Listing the State of the Art and Future Goals
- Vote matching websites - Listing the State of the Art and Future Goals
- Transparency websites - Listing the State of the Art and Future Goals
- Lessons to Learn From Our Mistakes
More
All these pages are open for you to edit - please add suggestions and questions
- Program - the program
- Open Questions - things to discuss
- Participants - who will be there
- Location - the place to be
- Accommodation - Anyone looking for a bed to sleep in a private place or hotels, hostels click here
- Pages of Interest - sites that serve as inspiration
- Good Practice - what to take care of when trying to set up an eDemocracy project
- What is still missing - what is crying out to be done
- Contact - How to contact the organisation team? Who are helpers?
- BerlininAugust 2007 - for more information check the wiki of last years e-democracy summit