I just came across this project today (a sure sign I need to refactor my RSS reading habits). From their about page:
Background
Every two years, EU Ministers gather to agree on a Ministerial Declaration on e-government, which is the main European strategic document. This is usually accompanied by an Industry declaration.
We feel the urge to add an open declaration, collaboratively built and endorsed by EU citizens who share the view that the web is transforming our society and our governments. We feel e-government policies in Europe could learn from the open, meritocratic, transparent and user-driven culture of the web. We also feel that current web citizens should engage more positively with government to help designing a strategy which is genuinely difficult to adopt in the traditional culture of public administration.
We trust that if we manage to deliver quality of insight and quantity of endorsement, we will present this declaration officially at the EU ministerial conference on e-government, in Malmo on November 2009.
The open declaration will consist of a short manifesto and a more detailed supporting document with ideas on how the manifesto might be implemented.
The first phase ran from June 15 through July 15 of this year and used Uservoice to collect a first round of ideas around the following question: “What are the top things EU governments should do in the next 3 years to use the web to transform public services?”
Phase 2 is still ongoing (ends September 30) and uses MixedInk to collaboratively write the manifesto.
And finally, there is also a wiki which will “pull together a more detailed document to support the declaration itself.”
The project was launched by David Osimo and Paul Johnston and is supported by a group of well-known European experts in this field.
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