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Georgia State (United States) more committed to ethics in government than Romania
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Georgia’s state and local governments are more committed to protecting their citizens from possible unethical behavior of their public officials than the Romanian authorities. At the state level, Georgia has an Ethics Commission and ethics legislation in place. “It is …
Working in ethics reform
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Part of my line of work at Common Cause Georgia, United States is to assist in the development of a local government ethics board. Ethics seems to be something that everybody talks about and knows about, but one can feel …
Why don’t citizens participate? (part 2)
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People do not participate in the life of their community trying to influence decision makers to implement solutions to problems of public concern, due to reasons that include lack of success stories of civic engagement, lack of time, lack of …
I have launched the training ENGAGEMENT
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The training “ENGAGEMENT” combines theoretical and practical elements of public policy analysis with theoretical and practical elements of participative democracy. It is ideal for organizations that have members who want to engage in solving problems of public concern in local, …
Recommendations to promote access to e-participation
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The recommendations below are aimed at making e-participation more important in generating change in the community. They are the result of the working group on “promoting access to e-participation” organized within the Expert Seminar New Ways of Participation in Multicultural …
Seminar on e-Participation unfolding in Budapest, Hungary
During June 14-18 I am attending the Expert Meeting on New Ways of Participation in Multicultural Youth Work Based on Information and Communication Technologies. The seminar is organized by the Council of Europe at its Youth Centre in Budapest, Hungary. …
Test the citizen engagement platform at www.public-policies.eu: STEP 3
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Once a problem’s page is generated, any person interested in the problem in question can offer a solution, filling in the “solution form” at the bottom of the page. The scoop is for the problem to receive as many solutions …
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Test the citizen engagement platform at www.public-policies.eu: STEP 2
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Once the “Problem identification form” is submitted and an administrator aproves it, a script generates the “Problem’s page” as seen in the picture below. At the top, there is the name of the category of the problem, the title of the problem and …
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Test the citizen engagement platform at www.public-policies.eu: STEP 1
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The online citizen engagement platform available at www.public-policies.eu allows you to publish a problem of European public concern and offer your solutions to the problems already published. We are currently testing the work that the programmers have done so far and invite …
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