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D-CENT is interviewing Meg Hillier, the Member of Parliament for Hackney South and Shoreditch. What are her ideas about democratic assemblies and D-CENT?
Hillier was one of the panelists at the D-CENT launch event Democracy reboot: Re-imagining democracy and currency in Europe, organised at the 14th of March 2014 in London.
>> Read our earlier post about the launch event, videos included
D-CENT is talking to Joonas Pekkanen, the founder of Open Ministry crowdsourcing website in Finland. The website supports proposals getting through to the parliament. Pekkanen also works as an Open democracy expert at Forum Virium Helsinki, one of the D-CENT’s project partners, and is executing the Finnish pilot.
What is he thinking about D-CENT and what we’re trying to achieve?
If you’re interested the work we do in Finland, read an ealier post from Joonas about the Finnish pilot.
A new European-wide project launches which will build decentralized and privacy-aware tools for democratic participation to empower European citizens.
The initiative, D-CENT (Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies), backed by the European Commission, will see the development of new open source, decentralized and privacy-aware digital tools and applications for direct democratic and economic empowerment.
D-CENT is talking to Fabrizio Sestini, scientific officer working with the European Commission since 1997. Currently Sestini works with the unit “Net Innovation” of DG CONNECT. What he thinks about D-CENT?
Sestini was one of the keynote speakers in our launch event Democracy reboot: Re-imagining democracy and currency in Europe.
D-CENT is talking to Stacy Herbert, the co-host of Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on Russian state media channel RT. What she has to say about digital currencies and D-CENT?
Herbert was one of the panelists at our launch event Democracy reboot: Re-imagining democracy and currency in Europe.
The D-CENT team was on location in Helsinki in the first week of March. The objective was to understand the Finnish context i.e. what kind of issues are active citizens facing when trying to self-organize and coordinate actions. The days were packed with user interviews with people behind citizens initiatives, citizen activists, municipal politicians, members of parliament and civil servants from different ministries and the city of Helsinki.
