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On 28 June 2017 the municpality of San Donà di Piave invited various stakeholders to the Teatro Metropolitano Astra to present and discuss the capabilities provided by the early prototype of the WeGovNow online platform.

WeGovNow aims at tapping into innovative technologies for effectively supporting coproduction by civic society stakeholders and collective proposition development. By integrating a set of innovative technologies into a unified citizen engagement platform, the project aims at overcoming the current limitations of existing digital tools for citizen reporting,...

WeGovNow is proud to be selected as one of three projects taking part in a pilot on enabling the engaged stakeholder community and the wider public to assess up-and-running Horizon 2020 projects. The pilot seeks to explore the benefits and drawbacks of using the instrument of Open Peer Review for EU-funded or -cofunded research.

The Institute of Advanced Studies (ISA) of Europe’s oldest university, the University of Bologna, Italy, organised a workshop on “The Future of Democracy” on 3 November 2016. The workshop’s objective was to start an activity on the topic of democracy and participation. Such initiative is by its nature multidisciplinary, involving mathematics, computer...

WeGovNow is one of three research & innovation projects funded under Horizon2020 call Euro-6-2015. All three started early in 2016 and run over three years. In mid-November, WeGovNow met up with the other two projects' coordinators in Brussels.

“LiquidFeedback and a fair process of decision making” - Presentation at the COST Action IC1205 Industry Day in Toulouse, France

The Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute in Rüschlikon/Zurich, Switzerland executed a creative workshop for members of the Swiss water economy in October 2015. In cooperation with partners from science, economy and culture the participants discussed extreme scenarios for the management of water supply and distribution. LiquidFeedback was used to discuss, comment...

It was a good start to a promising project: on 10 and 11 March, the twelve WeGovNow partners met for the first time in London. The meeting helped them to revise initial ideas and plan their collaboration in the next three years.

The City of Achim, Germany launches the participation platform achim-dialog based on LiquidFeedback. Municipality representatives will join the WeGovNow Advisory Board to share their experiences.