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MOMENTUM Portal of eParticipation projects

The main objective of MOMENTUM Project is to strengthen political, social, scientific, and technological excellence in eParticipation by integrating results and practices of relevant initiatives building upon the ICT research capacities of individuals and organisations spread across Europe. MOMENTUM is a Specific Support Action project funded under the European Commission’s eParticipation programme (eParticipation 2007/1).

eParticipation preparatory action

The objectives of the eParticipation Preparatory Action are to demonstrate how using modern ICT tools and applications can make it easier for people to participate in decision-making and can contribute to better legislation. The action was initiated by the European Parliament and launched in 2006. It supports pilot projects in real-life environments that demonstrate the use of Information and Communication Technologies to bolster citizens’ participation in democratic decision-making.

eParticipation

eGovernment for the people - Good practice in eParticipation with links to the eParticipation leaflet, eParticipation preparatory action, FP5 and FP6 research projects on eParticipation & the Report on national eParticipation initiatives.

Community Portal of eParticipation Projects

Initiative to increase citizens participation in EU legislative process

LEGESE - Easing Participation in Legislative Processes

LEGESE is an eParticipation Action project that is pilot trialing a new service to encourage easy communication and information exchange for effective public participation in the legislation implementation phase of European initiated legislation at the local and regional levels that are most directly relevant to most citizens’ lives.

eParticipate - European eService for Democratic Renewal & Citizen Engagement.

eParticipate provides an open integrated standard web-based network & gateway of existing “best of breed” applications (called Public-i) to enable public bodies to implement and benefit from a range of eParticipation tools to broaden the participation of citizens in the democratic process

FEED 'Federated eParticipation Systems for Cross-Societal Deliberation on Environmental and Energy Issues'

provides users with seamless access to existing federated content that matches their information search requirements, with a focus on Environmental and Energy issues. Read more.

DEMO-net: The eParticipation Network

DEMO-net is a Network of Excellence project funded under the European Commission's sixth framework programme: Information Society Technologies IST (FP6-2004-27219). The project started 1 January 2006, will be funded for 4 years.

Demos@Work 'European-wide discussion between elected representatives and civil society':

facilitating European-wide discussions between elected representatives and civil society on emerging policy issues in the field of public health, particularly the harmful effects of smoking.

Ideal-EU 'Integrating the Drivers of e-Participation at Regional Level in Europe':

raising awareness on the latest evidence on climate change, and appropriate policy responses, together with assessments of the financial impact and costs of inaction.

VEP 'The Virtual European Parliament'

creates a virtual European Parliament in which young citizens can participate via mobiles and web2.0 technologies and tools.

VOICE 'Giving European People a voice in EU-legislation'

enhancing the participation of citizens from regions in Germany and Spain in EU decision-making in the area of consumer protection.

eCommittee

provides citizens with the opportunity to follow issues in the European Parliament's Environment Committee and to interact with MEPs. The focus is on climate change.

DALOS 'Drafting legislation with ontology-base support'

project aims to provide law-makers and European citizens with linguistic and knowledge management tools to assist in accessing and retrieving as well as drafting legal texts.

SEAL 'Smart Environment for Assisting the drafting and debating of Legislation'

developing an integrated working environment to help those involved in drafting legal texts. The project provides the tools to make it easier to create legal drafts and connections from and to existing legal sources.

LEX-IS (Enabling Participation of the Youth in the Public Debate of Legislation among Parliaments, Citizens and Businesses in the European Union)

Aims to improve the legislative process in National Parliaments through enhancing public participation in the preparatory stages (legislative drafting and public debate of draft law) with the use of state-of-the-art ICT-tools and methodologies.

LEXIPATION 'An advanced ICT tool for enhancing Citizen's participation in the legislative process'

provides tools to aid interaction between members of parliaments and citizens or groups of citizens at the regional level in four member states (Germany, Greece, Italy, and UK)

TID+ 'Enabling citizens' initiative to eParticipation'

based on an Estonian experience (Today I Decide) which enables citizens to propose, discuss and express views on new legislation initiatives, while allowing decision-makers to deliver a response to them, this project will adapt and make available this service in a cross-border environment.

Wikipedia eParticipation Page

Defines eParticipation and provides some useful links, but needs to be edited and completed.

Planned EU 'political MySpace'

Planned social networking site for MEPs and MPs to boost contacts between politicians across Europe and promote a trans-European democracy. Officially to be launched in October - is a website currently under construction that aims to work along the same lines as the popular MySpace or Facebook social networking services, but in addition to linking social contacts aims to foster debate about legislative proposals coming both out of Brussels and from national parliaments.

Citizenscape Western Australia - CommunityBuilder

Citizenscape Australia - Resources and Guides for active citizenship from Western Australia Provides a wealth of practical information on citizenship-related organizations, activities, resources and projects. This Western Australian government site is particularly useful for those who want to take an active role in shaping the future of their community through government related decision-making. This site has been designed for citizens; decision-makers and those interested in engaging citizens in civic debate. Information on Citizenscape outlines how you can get involved in government decision making. It will be particularly useful to individuals and civic advocates who wish to learn more about how to influence decision-makers.

ARIADNE Newsletters on eParticipation

Quarterly Newsletters for advancing technologies, ideas and provocative exchange of views and opinions in the areas of e-government, e-participation and governance, prepared as part of the dissemination and public awareness activities of the ALTEC Research Programmes Division http://research.altec.gr

DoWire Groups - Online Communities of Practice &E-mail Updates

DoWire Groups promotes international online information and knowledge exchange on e-democracy, e-government, and democracy practices. It is the online place for those building information-age democracy, governance, and active citizenship in the 21st Century. Each online group is an integrated e-mail list and web forum with file sharing and more. You may choose e-mail (default setting), web, or both for discussions. E-mail updates from our Democracies Online Newswire (blog version) and our low volume DoWire site Announcements are also available. Launched as DO-WIRE in 1998, the Newswire reaches over 2750 members across 100 countries.

eParticipation & eDemocracy Network on ePractice.eu

The eParticipation and eDemocracy Network is open to all interested in these issues, whether at sub-national, national, European or trans-national levels. The issues covered are potentially broad, such as eEngagement, eDeliberation, eInvolvement, eLegislation and eVoting, as well as eDecision, eRule and ePolicy-making.

PEP-NET Pan European eParticipation Network

PEP-NET will be a European network of all stakeholders active in the field of eParticipation. PEP-NET therefore already includes public bodies, solution providers and citizen organizations as well as researchers and scientists. The network is open to all organizations willing and actively trying to advance the idea and use of eParticipation in Europe.

Internet based participation projects in the UK & Germany

We present a variety of internet based participation projects in the United Kingdom and in Germany. Our aim is to show diverse developments and highlight examples of good practice. Furthermore, we would like to encourage people to join one of these projects or to start their own. Provided by the British Council Germany and politik-digital.de.

my.barackobama.com - Community Engagement Tools

Over the past 21 months, millions of individuals have used My.BarackObama to organize their local communities on behalf of Barack Obama. The scale and size of this community and its work is unprecedented. Individuals created more than 35,000 local organizing groups, hosted over 200,000 events, and made millions of calls to neighbours about this campaign. There can be no question that these local, grassroots organizations played a critical role in Barack Obama's victory. What has made My.BarackObama unique hasn't been the technology itself, but the people who used the online tools to coordinate offline action. My.BarackObama has always been focused on using online tools to make real-world connections between people who are hungry to change politics. The online tools in My.BarackObama will live on, and people will continue to use the tools to participate, collaborate and interact, to bring about the promised change.

Citizen Participation in Wiki & Facebook Era

Excellent slides from Institute of Public Administration workshop 24 Oct08, Dublin , Ireland on Web 2.0 in public sector.

EuroPetition - eParticipation through Petitioning in Europe

EuroPetition is a trans-European ePetitions service that will use the latest Web 2.0 online services to coordinate local, cross-border and pan-European Citizen Initiative EuroPetitions from citizens across the EU, and thus strengthen and broaden citizens' participation in democratic decision-making and contribute to better legislation. It is another eParticipation Action project.

What on earth is Citizenscape???

Action Research Diary Blog on the evaluation & operation of the CitizenScape services.

CitizenScape Blog

A Blog on the operation and use of the CitizenScape services to enable user feedback & discussion.

Guide to Social Media for Organizations

Interesting insider's Guide to introduce Web 2.0 & social media into large organisations, such as the public sector.