Community Engagement - Germany
Articles and resources about trends and issues in community and citizen engagement initiatives by government in Germany
- Open Government in the German Federal Administration - in pdf format (931kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Best practices – Latest Developments - Perspectives, presented by Sebastian.Holtz@init.eu, Brussels, 16 November 2010 to the ePractice workshop: Public Services 2.0. Looks at the implementation of open government, open government data and online citizen engagement in Germany during 2010.
- Online Debate Experiment To Unite 10,000 Random Citizens
- by Dan Jellinek. e-Government Bulletin issue 313, May 31, 2010. "An innovative pilot project to involve 10,000 randomly-selected German citizens in political debate and policymaking, one of the largest programmes of its kind ever undertaken, was launched this month. BürgerForum (Citizens' Forum) 2011 is aimed at devising ideas to promote and strengthen social cohesion and equal opportunities in an increasingly diverse society. A total of 10,000 citizens, selected randomly across 25 cities and counties, will take part in the exercise between now and May 2011..."
- The city of Essen implements an online eParticipation project
- ePractice.eu, 24 August 2009. Country Germany; Domain eGovernment; Topic eParticipation, eDemocracy and eVoting, Services for Citizens, Infrastructure, Policy, Regional and Local, User-centric Services. "The Ministry of the Environment and Nature Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection has put together an action plan with measures to promote noise reduction in the area of Essen. This regional Online Participation project has recently completed its first online phase..."
This category last updated: 25 August 2009