CEE Citizens Network’s blog

I am glad we are doing this together. Would be hard to figure it out on my own. Thank you Csaba

CEE CN members are debating on e-participation and it’s affect on participation itself.

So here we all are trying to get this new blog to work.  It is an interesting challenge for me to learn these new things.  But I am trying to get with it.  Hopefully we can make some significant progress and then increase the kind of communication among us.

The PEP-NET is carrying out the E-participation forum at http://www.internet-discourse.eu/
Go and take a visit to read the high topics of e-participation, make your voice heard, get involved!

The second part of the technology focus training, financed by the EC and other resources has been organized in Prague last spring. The second round of the workshop is taking place in Riga, along with the BarcamBaltics.

The programme for both events are impressing.
original project:

Interactive TechTools:

http://techtools.tol.org/

Riga training event

http://itt-riga.wikidot.com/start

Barcamp in Riga

http://barcamp.lv/

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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At the meeting of the Council of Europe Forum for the Future of Democracy held in Sweden in June last year, participants called on the INGO Conference of the Council of Europe to prepare a Code of Good Practice for Civil Participation which should cover questions such as mechanisms for NGO participation in decision-making processes and other forms of citizens’ involvement. The principal objective of this instrument is to contribute to an enabling environment for NGOs in Council of Europe Member States and Belarus by defining at European level, a set of general principles and guidelines for the civil participation in decision-making processes to be implemented at local and national level.

After the ifrst revision of the code, which has been taking place recently in Sweden, we have set up a wiki site for open contributing/commenting to the code.

We encourage all our readers to investigate and participate in the process of making this code better and better.

The Wiki of the Draft Code (which is really simle to use, in 3 minutes, you will get used to all the possibilities) can be found here: http://codeforcivicparticipation.wiki.zoho.com/Introduction.html

by Madarász Csaba

As CEECN is quite a new member of the Conferenc of INGOS from the Council of Europe, I was asked on behalf of the CEECN to give some feedback related to the website of the Council – with Nigel Warner and Silvia Geise.

I was feeling really good, because the whole COE website park is an unbalanced mess -except some fresh parts, and giving opinion from the NGO side – and hiding my personal expertise in e-government and internet related issues – was a challenge.

Of course, the COE might appear as a fairly good bunch of websites, but I do think, that the revision has just come in time.

Unfortunately, there is no response, how it will be handled, and the consultation process is not an open process (I am convinced it would be better)
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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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