e-Participation in Established and Emerging Democracies: Early Experiences in Eastern Europe
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Dates:
Thursday 8 December 2005, 09:15:00 - 17:00:00
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Location:
Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom
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Register
This Forum is by invitation only.
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Supporters:
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Cisco Systems, EBay and Omidyar Network
The focus of this workshop is to explore the role of the Internet in civic participation and democratic conversations with a focus on experience in the new democracies of Eastern Europe.
The focus of this workshop is to explore the role of the Internet in civic participation and democratic conversations with a focus on experience in the new democracies of Eastern Europe. This event brings together a small group of academics, activists, bloggers and policy-makers with a view to identifying new developments in the use of online technologies that challenge existing models of e-participation as well as highlighting areas where policy and practice in Eastern Europe could be informed by – and inform – research and experience from other parts of the world.
The goal is both to explore the current state of eparticipation and to help set an agenda for future research.
Time |
Session |
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09:00 |
Coffee |
09:15 |
Introduction and Welcome by John Palfrey and William Dutton |
09:30 |
Stephen Coleman and Stephen Ward: E-participation: State of Play Moderator: John Palfrey |
10:45 |
Coffee Break |
11:15 |
Andrij Ihnatov: Case Study 1 – The Ukrainian Revolution and the Net Discussant: Stefan Iwaskewycz; Moderator: Vicki Nash |
12:30 |
Lunch |
13:30 |
Silver Meikar: Case Study 2 – E-stonia Discussant: Helen Margetts; Moderator: Zephyr Teachout |
14:45 |
Coffee Break |
15:15 |
Moving Forward – Policy, Research, Activism and Tools Group discussion: What policies should be implemented? What research needs to be done? Where should activism be focused? What tools need to be developed? Moderator: John Palfrey |
16:45 |
Concluding Remarks by Jonathan Zittrain |
This event is co-organised with the Berkman Center for the Internet & Society. We are grateful to eBay, the Omidyar Network and Cisco Systems for their kind support of this event.
About the speakers
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Professor William H. Dutton
Oxford Internet Institute
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Professor Helen Margetts
Oxford Internet Institute
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Dr Victoria Nash
Oxford Internet Institute
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Dr Steve Ward
Oxford Internet Institute
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Professor Stephen Coleman
Oxford Internet Institute
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Professor John Palfrey
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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Andrij Ihnatov
Maidan, Inc.
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Stefan Iwaskewycz
Dykun blogger
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Silver Meikar
ex-MP, Estonian Parliament
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Zephyr Teachout
Berkman Center for Internet & Society