Because we know how important is for society to actively involve citizens in decision making at local or national level, we worked with Culture Polis and Place Identity to create an innovation policy platform.Our aim is to strengthen the institutional role and effectiveness of civil society, focusing on the urgent need to shift the policy to new applications.

Role of SciFY as promoter in this project were:

• Data gathering

• Data processing

• Visualization of data and publishing

• Implementation of an open, online platform for civil partnership

What is it  

The project is one of the stages of social enterprise , Politeia 2.0 and includes:

1. Research, comparison and visualization for civil rights and institutional role of civil society

2. Educational participatory planning and participatory leadership programs, contemporary social consultation technologies

3. Innovation workshops to develop pilot participatory decision-making processes at local and national level

4. Applications and dissemination activities of new knowledge and information about the democratic deficit in Greece and the possibilities of democratic and collaborative applications in modern times

5. Open technological tools of cooperation and participation

Who is it for

 The project is aimed for: 

• Every greek citizen who wants to be informed and state his opinion about political choices made in regional and national level.

• Every public or private department who wants to express a political opinion or communicate a decision.

 Partners of PPI

Results

On the occasion of the International Republic Day, celebrated every year on September 15, we would like to share with you the results of our project "Platform of Political Innovation", which aims to promote democracy by strengthening the institutional role and effectiveness of civil society, focusing on the urgent need to move the Policy to new technological and civil applications.

The project was funded as part of the "We are all citizens" program, which is part of the EEA Grants for Greece. Grant Manager of the Program is the Bodossaki Institution and the cooperating NGOs are Culture Polis, Place Identity and SciFΥ, three civil society based organizations that have combined their expertise and experience.

Innovative methods we have been experimenting with in various cities in Greece from October to May 2015 are aiming to redefine the decision-making processes at a local and national level. The findings and tools obtained through the civil workshops, educational programs and the research thar was conducted are now available to the public:

1. CITIZENS WORKSHOPS:

Α) Local scale subject  - PEDIO_AGORA: Citizens design the future of Varvakios Square

• Citizens laboratories Results PEDIO_AGORA (Athens)

• Citizens Manual ”Participatory Urban Design”

Β) Nationwide subject - CONSTITUTION 2.0: Citizens design the Constitution of Greece

• Citizens laboratories results SYNTAGMA 2.0 (Athens, Thessaloniki, Mesologgi)

• Citizens Manual ”Constitutional Institutions Participatory Design”

2. EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS:

• Toolbox: ”Collaborative methods, participatory planning tools & strategic organization of groups and organizations”

• TECHNOLOGY TOOLS: Networking and civil society groups collaboration platform ActiveCommons

3. RESEARCH:

• Comparative research ”Confronting corruption: The role of NGO’s in Greece and Switzerland”

• Comparative research: “Comparing civil rights in european countries”

The presentations of the international meeting with subject "PARTICIPATION OF CITIZENS: From designing a neighborhood square to designing the country’s Constitution" are available from Blod.gr, while the overall video is available here.

Project ID

This project is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway under the EEA Grants Greek NGO Programme “We are all Citizens”. The Bodossaki Foundation is the Fund Operator of this Programme. The Programme aims to strengthen civil society and enhance the contribution of NGOs to social justice, democracy and sustainable development.

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