Partecipa.net: a kit of Methods and Tools for eParticipation Processes
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Partecipa.net is an e-democracy initiative by the Emilia-Romagna regional government, aimed at enhancing citizen participation in local policy-making through innovative information systems. Funded partially by the Italian innovation ministry, the project includes an e-democracy portal and a toolkit of open-source software for citizens to engage in various participatory processes. Key challenges include aligning project timing with political needs and improving communication to foster community involvement.
Partecipa.net: a kit of Methods and Tools for eParticipation Processes
- 1. Partecipa.net: a Kit of Methods and Tools for eParticipation Processes Sixth International EGOV Conference 2007 Regensburg – 2007/09/04 Sabrina Franceschini, Lucia Mazzoni Emilia-Romagna regional Government, Aster partecipanet@regione.emilia-romagna.it www.partecipa.net
- 2. Introduction Since 2004 the Emilia-Romagna Regional Government (Italy) is engaged in an e-participation project Partecipa.net is an e-democracy project aimed to stimulate the citizens participation through new mechanisms and new information systems The project is testing a permanent connection system allowing telematic participation of citizens to the definition of local policies
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- 4. Budget & Timing • Partecipa.net is partially funded by Italian Innovation Ministry •Requires an economical co-participation of each partner • Budget: 730.700 euro for 24 months, 300.000 from the Ministry • Start date: September 1, 2005 • End date: October 31, 2007
- 5. Aims •To define and create participation processes in an integrated manner; • to promote participation within and outside the administrations; • to provide a tool usable by all level of PA; • to define, test and disseminate the methodology; > Partecipa.net has been designed as a project based on collaborative learning where all involved partners (PAs, citizens associations) contribute to increasing the culture of participation to the political choices, in the spirit of a true governance.
- 6. Outputs • e-democracy portal: www.partecipa.net • creation of an E-democracy Kit; • implementation of the kit by the PAs partner of the project; • testing of the kit through the realisation of participation processes on Urban planning; • creation of a committed working community
- 7. E-democracy kit: tools a set of open source software tools to that allow citizens to: implement technologies to: distribute information receive information on selected issues via different channels address questions on specific enable the dialogue themes and get on line personalized between PA and answers from experts citizens take part to on-line forums access on-line technical d documentation (library) consultation take part to surveys
- 8. E-democracy kit: guidelines and methodologies • Guidelines to organize an editorial team to publish thematic information and manage personal consultancy •A moderation methodology to manage on-line forum, guidelines to service implementation and how to set-up a moderation team •A methodology to obtain and publish participation processes results from the moderation team •A methodology of filing and storing, to manage results and contributions from the moderation team
- 9. Criticalities and shortcomings • project timing <> political/administrative timing • to involve decision-makers and citizens • lack of communication => participation needs a lot of communication!! • difficult to create a developer and user community to manage the tools
- 10. Next steps • end of the project activities and evaluation • new ICT plan of the Emilia-Romagna region (2007-2009) • new PAs users of the Kit, new e-dem processes from the Partecipa.net partners • European project?