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The Digital Democracy
| Title | The Digital Democracy |
| Aidamount | 5.500.000 |
| Organization | The Municipality of Hals |
| Conclusion | Ingen side valgt |
| Homepage | www.hals.dk/ddd |
| Contact | Birgitte Paulsen, project Manager, ddd@halskom.dk |
| Other participants | Aalborg University
Svend Allan Jensen's Drawing Office
Fujitsu Siemens
Vivarto Technologies
CARL BRO A/S |
| Theme | Digital Admin. |
| Keywords | Civic participation
Digital forums
E-Democracy
Local communities
Net-cafés
Portals
Transparency in public administration |
| Project start | 01 October 2001 |
| Project end | 31 December 2003 |
| Description | Can a youth policy obtain a content and develop by involving young citizens of a municipality in the process via the Internet?
Can the communication among parents, teachers, the school board and the remaining school prosper from using information technology as a tool?
Can better results be achieved by putting modern technology to use when submitting a new town plan for hearing?
Can IT prove instrumental in promoting participation in the democratic process within the community, or will the contrary happen with the invasion of technology in people's homes?
These are just a few of the questions to which an answer will sought in a joint venture by the Municipality of Hals, the Aalborg University and Svend Allan Jensen A/S in the Digital Democracy project.
In its design the project is partly a democracy project, partly an educational and skill developing project.
The project features three general goals:
--Involving citizens in democracy on a community level
--Developing the IT skills of the citizens
--Obtaining new knowledge of IT potentials and limitations in relation to democracy
By this project we intend to initiate a large series of experiments, e.g. making a school and a local association digital, providing easily accessible pc-centres in senior citizen centres, in youth clubs and in recreational areas, and to offer citizens a means of following the political decisions and raising questions and issues via the Internet.
This wealth of experiments will all be rolled out in a local community within the municipality of Hals.
A number of prerequisites must be met in order to initiate the experiments. In order to stand up to these, part of the project is focused on preparing the community for participating in the experiments. For one thing, this happens via a part project on infrastructure to provide available pc's and Internet access to all citizens regardless of their financial situation. And it will happen via a massive educational effort to make sure everybody can take part in the Digital Democracy, regardless of any educational background, once it becomes reality.
Throughout the project a comprehensive follow-up research will be performed in the way of surveys directed to the citizens with a focus on the results of the experiments. Will the citizens' attitude to democracy and IT change during the course of the project? |
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