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INITIATIVE.EU. FEDERATING STAKEHOLDERS FOR EUROPEAN CITIZENS’ INITIATIVES. JOINT SEMINAR ON "OPEN GOVERNMENT IN THE MAKING" 4/10/12 – EU Council, Brussels. SPEAKER’S BACKGROUND: POLICY MEDIA NETWORK. OVERVIEW. ECI PROMISING BUT NOT CATCHING LIKE (SOCIAL MEDIA) FIRE ...
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INITIATIVE.EU FEDERATING STAKEHOLDERS FOR EUROPEAN CITIZENS’ INITIATIVES JOINT SEMINAR ON "OPEN GOVERNMENT IN THE MAKING" 4/10/12 – EU Council, Brussels
OVERVIEW • ECI PROMISING BUT NOT CATCHING LIKE (SOCIAL MEDIA) FIRE ... • INITIATIVES: MAIN STAGES & LOGIC OF GROWTH • INITIATIVE.EU: PURPOSE & PROJECT DRIVERS • INITIATIVE.EU: FEW RESOURCES YET, BUT GREAT PARTNERS! • SEPARATED SPHERES? SOCIALLY NETWORKED, YES WE CAN!
ECI PROMISING BUT NOT CATCHING LIKE (SOCIAL MEDIA) FIRE ... • Great participative innovation, amazing Treaty left-over from Constitution attempt • Limited communication, no help desk etc…: even experts & NGO leaders know little yet • Hopefully better by 1 April, but too late to avoid initial situation 'the good, the bad, the ugly’. (meeting all criteria, lacking legal basis and support, lacking even fit with EU values). • High 'kill rate' at registration? risk of 'control freak' image of 'Brussels’. • Could liven-up EU debates: Not just euro-crisis, but civil society & indignés / indignados etc … • Process can improve: 2012: first successes, 2013: policy response & political programmes, 2014: elections, and EP + new Commission mandates. • EurActiv family is committed to ECI. (EurActiv.com + 15 Country Network + BlogActiv.eu + Fondation EurActiv PoliTech + EUX.TV). • Social Media: great potential, but not supporting EU policy making yet: we have ideas in mind … • Initiative.eu: small but unique contribution to help “initiators”
INITIATIVES: MAIN STAGES FEDERATING STAKEHOLDERS: “INITIATORS” COMMISSION / PARLIAMENT FOLLOW UP EUROPEAN COMMISSION REGISTRATION WEBSITE HELPDESK? NATIONAL ePETITION PORTALS & other media
INITIATIVES: LOGIC OF GROWTH Rough numbers: Thousands of ECIs ideas Dozens successful ECIs with 1M supports? Hundreds registered ECIs?
NEED FOR QUALITY BEFORE REGISTRATION:PLATFORM INITIATIVE.EU … + HELPDESK?
PROJECT PARTNERS SOCIAL MEDIA INTERACTIONS PARTNER EU PROJECTS organisation - overview EGOV & EPARTICIPATION SKILLS ASSOCIATE PARTNERS LEVERAGING EARLY PROJECTS’ RESULTS PROMOTION + OFFICIAL REGISTRATION/PETITION WEBSITES CONTENT PARTNERS FEED BACK FROM PRACTICAL GOOD PRACTICES CREDIBILITY SUPPORT/SPONSORS 1 EU DG ? 1 CORPORATE ? 1 CONSULTANCY ?
ORGANISATIONFEW RESOURCES YET… BUT GREAT PARTNERS 3 PROJECT PARTNERS SOCIAL MEDIA INTERACTIONS 5 PARTNER PROJECTS Have your say in the EU www.ep-ourspace.eu Helping you be part of the EU www.puzzledbypolicy.eu 5 ASSOCIATE PARTNERS Cross-border e-Petition www.ep-empower.eu + OFFICIAL REGISTRATION/PETITION WEBSITES Monitoring, Coordinating and Promoting EU eParticipation Projects www.ep-momentum.eu 3 CONTENT PARTNERS SUPPORT/SPONSORS Pan-European Network on eParticipation www.pep-net.eu 1 EU DG ? 1 CORPORATE ? 1 CONSULTANCY ?
SEPARATED SPHERES?SOCIALLY NETWORKED, YES WE CAN! Civil society: initiatives ECI: Proposals Institutions & Political parties: policies 2014 elections 2013 platforms eGovernment: tools Social media: relays Media: coverage eParticipation: experts debt crisis Grass-root movements: Frustrations
separated spheres?socially networked, yes we can! Civil society: initiatives Institutions & Political parties: policies eGovernment: tools Social media: relays Media: coverage eParticipation: experts
INITIATIVES: MAIN STAGES & LOGIC OF GROWTH Rough numbers: Thousands of ECIs ideas Hundreds registered ECIs? Dozens successful ECIs with 1M supports? FEDERATING STAKEHOLDERS: “INITIATORS” COMMISSION / PARLIAMENT FOLLOW UP (EDITORIAL COVERAGE) EUROPEAN COMMISSION PORTAL HELPDESK ACTIVITIES: NATIONAL ePETITION PORTALS ECI eCAMPAIGN TOOLS DELIBERATION SPACE PROMOTION (INDIVIDUAL BUDGETS) FREE (SPONSORS, EU FUNDING) FREE (SPONSORS, EU FUNDING, CROWD-FUNDING) REVENUES:
INITIATIVE.EU: STAKEHOLDERS FEDERATING EUROPEAN CITIZENS’ INITIATIVES A Neutral Online community platform open to ECI initiators and EU stakeholders: • An online deliberative space for EU stakeholders to support and formulate of their initiatives; • To help various stakeholders across different countries to federate their ECIs; • To improve quality & effectiveness of initiatives in making, so they are more successful once officially registered. • What Initiative.eu is NOT: • A Help Desk paid by the EU. • A “mass” portal (i.e ePetition) to collect signatures/petition “votes”.