The IMPACT partners would like to draw your attention on two workshops on online citizen engagement. Both aim to link research and practice and present the latest developments in the project to practitioners in government and policy analysis. We invite all members of the PA network to participate in these events and to get a more vivid and detailed impression of the tools developed in the project than is possible here on this online platform.
At both events, your feedback on our work is welcome and highly appreciated.
1st event: Sheffield, 27th January 2012
2nd event: Berlin, 8th February 2012
Detailed information: (see below for information on the Berlin event)
1st event: Sheffield, 27th January 2012
FP7 eGovernance and Policy Modeling projects: How to make the cutting edge R&D accessible for real use, in a shorter period of time.
Date: 27th January 2012
Time: 10am - 4pm
Venue: Showroom Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX. The venue is a 2 minute walk from the railway station in the city centre.
Where helpful, we will use examples which will focus on sustainability/environmental policy for this event, but the tools presented are clearly widely adaptable.
Aims:
- To close the gap between the availability of cutting edge R & D in eGovernance and Policy Modelling and its take-up in local and central government. It will bring the new governance projects and those about to exploit their results into a collaborative environment.
- To link the projects currently creating the best practice of the future with initiatives seeking to share current best practice, thus assisting with “exploitation” of the new initiatives.
- To briefly assess how these initiatives may be of global benefit by examining how China may be encouraged to take a short cut to sustainable development and looking at joint approaches to China.
Attendees:
Those involved in the EU Framework Programme initiatives, those charged with spreading best practice and the policy makers and practitioners who would value advance knowledge of what will be available for them to use in the coming years.
Outline Agenda:
- Introduction and background to the event.
Baudouin de Sonis, Chief Executive of EU e-Forum, Brussels.
- Presentations of what some current EU FP7 projects in the field of eGovernance and Policy Modelling are doing. These will include:The IMPACT Project – new tools using copyright laws as an exemplar
Professor Ann Macintosh, Professor of Digital Governance, Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Citizenship (The University of Leeds)
www.policy-impact.euThe CATCH Project–new tools in a carbon-reduction context
Dr Steve Cassidy, MRCMH, Edinburgh
www.carbonaware.euThe FUPOL project- new tools in a sustainable development context
South Yorkshire – EASY Connects
www.fupol.euPlus, other projects to confirm.
- Policy making and the real world. Presentations of two new Interreg IVC projects with South Yorkshire partners covering sharing of current best practice in environmental policy making, set in a wider vision for Sheffield.“Slicker Cities: Doing the right thing”
Edward Murphy, Technical Director, Mott MacDonald
Policies required to enable Sheffield to become an exemplar in tackling climate change.RE-GREEN Project, in context of Sheffield sustainable development policy.
Adrian Hacket, Building for Future, SheffieldRENERGY Project
Ian Bloomfield, Durham County Council
- What Next?Presentation of event to take place in China in July to share best practice in governance and establish strong future collaborations.
Dr Shaun Topham, President EU e-Forum and EU-China e-ForumDiscussion covering opportunities for realising any synergies emerging between the various initiatives represented or for new initiatives.
Dr Bridgette Wessels, ICOSS, University of Sheffield
Further information to follow as the programme takes shape and further suggestions are welcome. Please circulate this to anyone you think may be interested.
There is no registration fee. To reserve a place - please email: Dominic Tyerman. Let him have any dietary requests if needed.
2nd event: Berlin, 8th February 2012
Procedures and Tools to Support the Policy Making Process - Verfahren und Technologien zur Unterstützung des Gesetzgebungsprozesses
Date: 8th February 2012
Time: 13:30 - 17:30
Venue: tbd (Berlin-Tiergarten)
Attendees:
Decision makers and policy analysts from politics or public administration on all levels of government, from industry and civil society as well as e-participation practitioners.
Announcement:
Please save the date for this workshop to be held in Berlin, with hands-on experience of the IMPACT prototype tools.
The workshop is held in German language. Workshop participants might also be interested in two events that are locally and thematically, though not organisationally, related: The MEDIENFORUM Berlin on „Open Data, Open Government - Neue Regeln, neue (Medien-) Politik?“ (evening of 8th February) and the conference on "Bürgerschaftliche Mitverantwortung bei Planungs- und Entscheidungsprozessen" (7th February).
Further information on this event will follow soon in the next week.
