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Report from EUCROWD event in Amsterdam

The third EUCROWD public event took place in Amsterdam during 14th-15th March 2017. The international conference “Crowdsourcing a new European democracy” organized by Netwerk Democratie brought together 73 citizens from 14 different countries. The conference focused on the opportunities for a more democratic Europe in the context of crowdsourcing as a method of an on-line engagement. Different conditions, tools and processes of engaging citizens in politics from the local to the European level were presented and discussed.

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Report from EUCROWD event in Paris

The fifth EUCROWD public event took place in Paris on 20th June 2017. The international conference “Co-build politics with citizens to foster democracy in Europe” organized by L’association Parlement & Citoyens brought together 70 citizens from 7 different countries. The event focused on sharing and discussing experiences and visions of citizens participation in public decisions from the view of confidence, efficiency, transparency and legitimacy. French cases of using collective intelligence digital platforms within the civil society were presented. Facilitated workshop enabled participants, including disadvantaged and “disconnected” people, to work on the proposed general issue of participation to the democratic daily processes by distant audiences.

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Open Democracy in Practice: Crowdsourcing

International seminar

OPEN DEMOCRACY IN PRACTICE: CROWDSOURCING

Eurooppasali, Malminkatu 16, 00100 Helsinki, 11 October 2017

Open Ministry and the Institute of Deliberative Democracy are organizing a seminar “Open Democracy in Practice” in Helsinki. The seminar is part of international European Citizens Crowdsourcing project. The event gathers together the developers and users of open democracy. The most exciting cases of crowdsourcing in Finland will be presented and discussed. In the afternoon we have workshops where, based on national examples, we’ll discuss the idea of a crowdsourcing pilot in the EU. The results will be gathered and used in the project Towards a Crowdsourcing Pilot at the EU level.

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Report from EUCROWD event in Athens

The fourth EUCROWD public event took place in Athens on 9th May 2017. The international conference and workshop “Let’s Crowdsource the Future of Europe” organized by Science For You brought together 47 citizens from 9 different countries. The event focused on how EU decisions are made and in what ways crowdsourcing will allow citizens to participate directly. In particular, participants discussed when crowdsourcing could be used in the legislative process of the EU, what topics should it cover and what tools and methodologies can enhance crowdsourcing by learning from best practices in Greece.

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