Summary
Despite the fact that Switzerland is an economically advanced country with a high broadband and mobile phone penetration rate, research on the effects of ICTs in a direct democratic political system is lacking. Over the last decade European democracies have conducted numerous trials with a wide range of ICT enabled forms of political experimentation. These initiatives have been conducted across various levels of political authority, from the local and regional right through to the supranational. Intriguingly, to the extent that ICT’s have been used in such a way they have (...)

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Texte préliminaire de février 2009 (version 2-fr)
pour les invitations
Commission ICT de la SATW

http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/
Workshop des 12 et 13 mars 2009
à Münchenwiler
http://www.schlossmuenchenwiler.ch/content.asp?code=08
E-POLITICS:
DIGITAL INCLUSION,E-PARTICIPATION
et DEMOCRATIE DIRECTE
The Swiss Academy of Engineering sciences (SATW) created in 2002 an ICT Comittee to promote ICT in Switzerland.
Under the chairmanship of Raymond Morel, this Comittee works in three domains :
e-Education, e-Health and e-Society and collaborates with many partners. (...)

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Programm (version 25. Februar)
Programme (version au 25 février)
List of participants (version 9 of March)

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Fragen zu beantworten
1) Was verstehen Sie unter e-Participation?



2) Welche Vorteile von e-Participation sehen Sie?
3) Welche Gefahren von e-Participation sehen Sie?


4) Wie kann e-Participation in der Schweiz gefördert oder verbessert
werden?


5) Welche Punkte gilt es im Zusammenhang mit direkter Demokratie
 (Volksabstimmungen) zu beachten?

Questions
1) Que comprenez-vous par e-participation?
2) Quels avantages voyez-vous dans la e-participation?
3) Quels dangers y voyez-vous?
4) Comment la e-participation pourrait-elle être promue voir (...)

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e-Democracy:-From Theory to Enactment by Lawrence Pratchett, Leicester Business School, De Montfort University CAHDE and the Future of Electronic Experiences in Term of Political Participation by Michael Remmert, Head of Project “Good Governance in the Information Society” Council of Europe: Study cases "e-Inclusion Living Lab": Patrick Genoud, Andréas Schweizer map in English map in French Kurzfassung Feinkonzept Polit-Simulation „PlayPolitics“ Andreas Hieber, Matthias Vatter PlayPolitics – -politische Prozesse lernenScreensshots_PlayPolitics (...)

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this section will be gradually completed following the preparation of the workshop
... THE LIVING LABS HARMONIZATION CUBE:
COMMUNICATING LIVING LABS’ ESSENTIALS Putting eParticipation research on the service of Civil Society
Pedro Prieto Martín Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, IN3, Barcelona, Spain Online and offline participation at the local level:
a quantitative analysis of the Catalan municipalities
Rosa Borge*, Clelia Colombo# and Yanina Welp Comparative Project on Local e-Democracy
Initiatives in Europe and North America (...)

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Work to achieve after the workshop : Le projet de communiqué de presse en français
Entwurf Medienmitteilung Münchenwiler 09 auf Deutsch Verändert das Internet unsere Demokratie? SATW ICT INFO 2-10 Internet transformera-t-il notre démocratie?
SATW ICT INFO 2-10 Recommandations : projet d’ICT NEWS en français Empfehlungen : draft ICT NEWS auf Deutsch Full proceedings (version (...)

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