Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
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Gütersloh, Germany-based Bertelsmann Stiftung, one of Germany’s largest foundations, just launched vitalizing-democracy.org, the theme site for their 2011 Reinhard Mohn Prize.
From the welcome post: Welcome to our platform!
On 23 June 2010, the Bertelsmann Stiftung launched this website in order to search for prize-worthy projects for the Reinhard Mohn Prize 2011.
With the forthcoming prize in 2011, the Bertelsmann [...]
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In August 2009, our team from the Brandt School advised the City of Erfurt on their participatory budgeting project. The city had asked their citizens earlier in a survey which areas they find important, and the administration wanted to use the results of the survey as the basis for an internet-based [...]
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I usually refrain from embedding other people’s hard work unless I have at least some additional value to add. In this case, however, I’m simply glad to see my German hometown embrace public participation:
Participatory Budgeting Cologne
View more documents from Matthias Trénel.
About Zebralog:
Zebralog is a not-for-profit organization that supports modern democratic decision making through the use of [...]
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PEP-NET, another promising e-participation initiative at the European level, launched earlier this month.
From the about page:
PEP-NET will be a European network of all stakeholders active in the field of eParticipation. PEP-NET therefore already includes public bodies, solution providers and citizen organizations as well as researchers and scientists. The network is open to all organizations willing [...]
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