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WP 11 - Involving Stakeholders
WP11 has developed the work on engagement and integration of various practitioner groups, using the DEMO-net integration strategy for the practitioner stakeholders identified in the first phase of the project. Furthermore, it has established an eParticipation Community of Practice that consists of Specific Interest Groups (SIGs) for the different practitioner stakeholder group.
The approach to reach sustainable engagement and integration in eParticipation is to es-tablish different eParticipation Specific Interest Groups (SIGs), which collaborate in this eParticipation community. To build relationships with practitioners in the public, volun-tary and community sectors, in civil society generally and with the ICT industry to assist in shaping research activity and priorities, four Specific Interest Groups will be set up in the course of WP 11 activities:
- SIG ICT-industry: The role of the Industry Specific interest Group is to assist in shaping the research agenda and to bring in the expertise and advice of industry practitioner partners on areas.
- SIG Governments and Executive: The SIG Government Executives will experience a good opportunity to get involved in the DEMO-net research agendas and in carrying out joint works of empirical work with researchers of DEMO-net. This may include new challenges to be addressed to realise the i2010 Policy Action “4. Transparency and democratic engagement”, as agreed by Ministers at the Lisbon Conference in September 2007.
- SIG Politicians and elected representatives: The aim of the SIG Politicians and elected representatives is to create a community space where political actors and decision-makers can share experiences and search for ideas on how to enhance public participation using ICT.
- SIG Community interest groups: To establish a platform and SIG with a dual core function: integrating perspectives, knowledge and reflections from the general public, citi-zens and civil society into eParticipation development (covering issues such as practical demands, views, experiences, knowledge etc.) and for transferring DEMO-net results into civil society practice in order to contribute to the overall engagement of practitioner experts from community interest groups in the ePCoP and, hence, in DEMO-net.
In phase 2, within WP11, two SIGs have been established: one for industry and one for government/executives. For the other two practitioner groups, preparations has been made to establish these SIGs early in phase III of DEMO-net: one is on the elected representatives at local, regional and national level and one on the third sector.
In phase II of DEMO-net, the two established SIGs have been engaged to review and elaborate the memorandum of understanding, contributions to eParticipation advancements in DEMO-net, contribution to the sustained eParticipation network of excellence (beyond DEMO-net) and an outline plan to implement tasks and results (SIGs DEMO-net booklets provided in electronic format in the VRC).
More specific objectives include:
- To develop an overall strategy for sustainable involvement of stakeholders;
- To establish an eParticipation Community of Practice (ePCoP) starting with creating two Specific Interest Groups (SIGs): one on industry and one on elected representatives and the government/executives
- To produce three booklets, as follows:
- eParticipation: the role of industry,
- eParticipation: the role of elected representatives and government/executives
- eParticipation initiatives and policies at the local, regional and national level in the countries of DEMO-net members
Final conference of the VoiceS project
VoiceS final conference
