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e-Participation A Bottom Up Revolution
POLITECH INSTITUTE European Center of Political
Technologies
  • byDaniel VAN LERBERGHE
  • President Executive Director
  • POLITECH INSTITUTE

2
OVERVIEW
  • Are We Moving Toward A More Participatory
    Democracy?
  • e-Participation A Bottom Up Revolution
  • Measuring eDemocracy Practical Concepts
  • The Annual European eDemocracy Award and Report
  • eParticipation Success Stories from Europe

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Are We Moving Toward a More Participatory
Democracy?
  • The knowledge-based Economy ? The New
    knowledge-based Democratic society ? The Birth of
    New Actors
  • The Political Entrepreneur
  • More efficient competitive, mobilize its
    stakeholders and resources to achieve public
    affairs objectives
  • Create a sustainable relationship with the
    citizens
  • Accountable respond to the demands of its
    constituencies
  • Increase public support for its actions
    (National International)
  • Constant Campaign
  • eChampion.

4
Are We Moving Toward a More Participatory
Democracy?
  • The Active Citizen
  • Knowledge and service hungry citizens
  • Like Politics, Dislike Politicians
  • Wants more for his/her buck Transparency,
    Accountability, Democracy
  • Transformed by the power of the Internet into
    opinion makers (e.g. citizen journalism) 50,000
    posts per hour (Technocrati index 2006)
  • Tangible Results
  • The Active Citizen ? The Active Civil
    Society.
  • The Knowledge Civil Servant
  • Transformation and modernization of the modern
    state
  • Training eChampions

5
Are We Moving Toward a More Participatory
Democracy?
  • eParticipation
  • The democratic dimension Citizen participation
    in the decision-making processes on and off line
    through forums, polls, propositions of laws and
    lobbying
  • The real challenge for eDemocracys future ? The
    Heart of Democracy
  • Enhance active citizen participation in the
    political process and re-bond citizens with their
    representatives ? Long Term
  • The Fear
  • Direct Democracy Vs Participatory
    Representative Democracy
  • The natural development of e-Government to
    e-Democracy

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Are We Moving Toward a More Participatory
Democracy?
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Are We Moving Toward a More Participatory
Democracy?
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Are We Moving Toward a More Participatory
Democracy?
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e-Participation A Bottom Up Revolution!
  • The Blogosphere
  • From GLOBAL to GLOCAL The GLOBAL role of
    Communities
  • 1 Blog per second 60X more than 3 years ago
    (source Technocrati index 2006)
  • Bloggers as opinion makers - e.g. Etienne
    Chouard, Loic Lemeur
  • Leadership Blogging - e.g. Margaret Wallstrom,
    ReadMyDay.gov.uk
  • Social Networking and Media Convergence (Radio,
    Vlog, Podcasting)
  • Bloggers communities - MySpace, DigitalMotion,
    YouTube, BBC ICANN
  • Blogging as a new channel of communication btw
    leaders and citizens.

10
e-Participation A Bottom Up Revolution!
  • Citizen Journalism
  • Bloggers as Journalists
  • Witnessing the news acting as images and content
    providers to news agencies
  • Traditional Media convergence
  • OhMyNews.com SLObserver

11
e-Participation A Bottom Up Revolution!
  • Second Life (secondlife.com) to Mediascape
  • Web 3.0 - Virtual World
  • Total Residents over 5M, Online 30K, US 1.5M
    in 24H
  • Secure Client - One Stop Shop Experience
  • Public Presence French Presidential, Swedish
    Embassy, La Maison de lEurope, Cities (e.g.
    Venice)
  • Positive Media Reviews
  • Mediascape - SL in RL, Device Independent
  • The Future Challenge of e-Democracy.

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Measuring eDemocracy Practical Concepts
  • The eDemocracy Value
  • A magnifying glass to analyze the evolution of
    eDemocracy in Europe
  • A practical concept (T.E. Cook index Public
    Value Management (PVM))
  • Confronts a given feature/service disclosed by a
    website/initiative, providing an added-value to
    the democratic process of a given community
  • The POLITECH INDEX (PD DD CD TD)
  • The IP-LABEL INDEX

European e-Democracy index Politech index
ip-label index 100 60
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The European eDemocracy Award www.politech-insti
tute.org/edem_award.asp
  • An Annual Trophy ? European eDemocracy
    website/online eDemocracy initiative
  • 50 selected websites/initiatives in the 25 EU
    Member States
  • 9 categories European Cities, European Local
    eDemocracy Projects, European Policy-makers
    Elected Representatives, European Civil Society,
    European Citizen Journalism Specialized Press,
    European Parliaments, European Political Parties
    Movements, European Commission and EU Member
    States
  • An Annual Report (2005, 2006).

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The European eDemocracy Awardwww.politech-institu
te.org/edem_award.asp
  • The UK Local eDemocracy National Project (22
    projects, 80 tools, multi-channel) Winner 2005
  • A unique approach to local democracy, involving
    all stakeholders in developing policy and holding
    decision makers to account.
  • The European Commission Debate Europe Portal
    Winner 2006
  • ?The portal was launched in 21 languages in March
    2006 by the EC as part of Plan D for Democracy,
    Dialogue and Debate to facilitate debate at the
    European level. Besides taking part in debates,
    visitors can also read contributions and podcasts
    by Members of the EC and the President of the
    Economic and Social Committee.

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eParticipation Success Stories from Europe
  • 2003 Greece Presidency and EU eVote vote for
    the EU you want!
  • 2 ways citizen participation eVote (e.g.
    questionnaires raising key issues), eVoices
    (e.g. open spaces to ask questions)
  • No follow up, EuropeDirect, Your Voice in Europe,
    Vice-President Wallstroms Blog.
  • 2005 Germany Berlin City eParticipation
    initiative Productive (Discussion Forum, WIKI),
    Inclusive (multi-channel), Transparent (budget)
    and Responsive (multi-channel)
  • From 2002 Finland eParticipation in Hämeenlinna
    City ? youth, civic education and citizen
    participation (Web Council), Leadership
    commitment
  • 2004-2005 Denmark S-Dialog - Digital
    communication administration platform for a
    political party
  • 2005 French EU Constitution Referendum Etienne
    Chouard The "Don Quichotte du non
  • 2006 EU DEMONET IST Project - promote develop
    technological socio-technical excellence in the
    emerging field of e-Participation

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Thank You!
  • Daniel van Lerberghe
  • email danielvl_at_politech-institute.org
  • POLITECH INSTITUTE
  • European Center of Political Technologies
  • Address Saint Bernard, 67 Brussels B-1060
    Belgium
  • email info_at_politech-institute.org website
    www.politech-institute.org
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