“Developing online communities to stimulate participatory democracy”. 2nd TRANSNATIONAL WORKSHOP. Registration: FREE. Please send name and organisation to info@e-itd.com and your registration will be confirmed. Dateline for registration: 5/2/2010. PROGRAM THURSDAY 11th February 08h30 Registration and documentation 09h00 Welcome to Barcelona and presentation of the meeting– Juan Pedregosa, ITD Director 09h10 Developing Participatory Democracy – Dr. Haroon Saad, QECDirector Presentation followed by discussion 09h45 Launch of “Why vote” Twitter based discussion. 10h45 Coffee break 11h15 Case Studies: * Introduces: Antoni Gutiérrez Rubi. External political advicer and Director of eDemocracia.org * IDEAL-EU project - Francesco Molinari. The IDEAL-EU project has supported the efforts of the European Parliament to raise awareness on the topic of climate change and energy among the EU citizens, especially the new generations, and to propose the appropriate policy responses at all institutional levels (including Member States and Regions) * Pep-net project – Representation of Gouvernment of Catalonia 12h30 Panel debate and discussion 14h00 Lunch 15h30 Workshops 1. Political video Remix. ZEMOS98 is a action group of cultural creation and production with an international scope. ZEMOS98’s team is expert of communications and internet pictures and sounds technology. This technology is a place for communication, learning and creation. [Workshop ONLY in Spanish] 2. Using Twitter. Nathaniel Ashford , ActionAid e-communications manager. This new channel aims to stimulate debates around participatory democracy as well as the use of voting. “Why vote” twitter channel will gather local debates in order to present and to share the different point of views. [Workshop done in the 4 languages of the project: ESP, ENG, ITA, GRE] 3. Local actions. Local actions for developing participatory democracy held in Rotterdam (municipality).[Workshop ONLY in English]. 17h30 Finish of Day one FRIDAY 12th February 09h00 New tactical media for local political participation David Casacuberta - professor of philosophy of science - Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona. Trànsit Projectes. New smartphones prepared with cameras, internet access and Global Positioning System are the perfect tools to improve local political participation, facilitating movements from the real world to a virtual one, and back to the real world. This talk will present several case studies on how to use mobile phones to improve political participation as well as some methodological and strategical hints on how to use them for such purposes. 10h00 Instigate and debate – issues emerging from twitter “why vote” contributions. 11h30 Coffee break 12h00 Case studies 1. “Online community of practice for an emerging European civil society.” Jim Seger – City Mine(d) The online community of practice consists of a collaboration side, where people share ideas, opinions and experience and a showcase side, where people show to each other and the outside world who they are, what they do and when. Proposed instruments to facilitate the community : real time collaboration: chat, instant messaging, whiteboard and discussion table ; voting and survey to get quick responses and idea of support for proposals ; collaborative documents: googledocs, wiki to write together and produce text with shared vision. [Workshop done in the 4 languages of the project: ESP, ENG, ITA, GR] 2. “Virtual European Parialement”. Mark De Colvenaer The objective of the project is to successfully create a public room – the Virtual European Parliament - for debate between citizens and decision makers (i.c. MEP’s) in EC. The results of the project will contribute to the objective in i2010 to create a single European information space with increased knowledge about how to bring citizens and decision makers together in dialogue and debate. Our project will also contribute to an improved legislative process by successfully bringing citizens and decision makers together.[Workshop ONLY in English] 13h10 Reflections * Oscar Martinez - ITD. Comprehensive analysis on the main issues emerging during these 2days meeting, by using “innovative” ways of presentation ( software and media). * Haroon Saad – QeC ERAN, Director 14h30 End of workshop.

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