CEE Citizens Network's blog

On Thursday 2nd April, we held a one day conference that was joint hosted by our member Crono, the Rural Network  of Romania and the Citizens Network.  There were approximately 50 people present.  Many of the representatives from the Citizen Network members were there for the first time and it was very good to meet such talented and interesting members.  An interesting discussion took place before lunch regarding peoples experience of involving citizens at different phases of community development work.  In the afternoon, there were group reports followed by a very lively discussion about future activities between our groups. A number of interesting and valuable suggesitons were made.  A brief report will be published shortly on our web site along with pictures.

We have invited Jos Lemmers from the Council of Europe to join us in Sofia to discuss Local Democracy Week/ Citizen Participation Week

After the summer TechTools workshop in Prague, organized by Transitions Online, which has gathered many organizations from the CEE region, dealing with transparency issues and the possibilities of new technologies, the second round of the workshop is boundled together with a Barcamp event, in Riga, Latvia in the begining of February.

Barcamp Latvia

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The PEP-NET is a network of e-participation stakeholders in Europe, with an impressive set of aims. The European Comission founded project gives us the opportunity, to extend the consciousness of community development and democracy development into the field of e-participation, and also, to learn more about the trends and new technologies happening in this dimension.

We encourage all our readers to visit the Pep-net blog regularly and invest a bit of time on the interesting topic of e-participation.

What is pep-net?

You can check it on the website: http://www.pep-net.eu

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