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WeGovNow supports inter-faith work in Southwark

Southwark Council is working with local faith groups to build stronger communities and meet the needs of all of its residents. They are developing a Faith Strategy, which will help different groups work with each other and with the Council, for the benefit of all. Southwark has around 400 separate faith groups operating in the borough. Many faith groups have...

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30 students work as WeGovNow ambassadors in San Donà di Piave

The public adminsitration in San Donà di Piave has concluded a formal agreement with three local high schools which enables 30 students to work as WeGovNow ambassadors supporting the administration, non-government organisations and citizens in the use of the platform under day-to-day conditions.

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WeGovNow at the Open Government Week in Turin

During the second edition of the Open Government Week, WeGovNow project partner and pilot site City of Turin has organised a public debate discussing the importance of innovation, participation and privacy in the context of digital citizenship and introduced the WeGovNow engagement platform as a new way to interact with citizens.

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Training the trainers: London Southwark hosts WeGovNow stakeholder lab

In January 2018, the London Borough of Southwark hosted a WeGovNow training lab which brought together public service officials both internal and external to the municipality as well as representatives from local NGOs. The training session introduced the various stakeholders to the WeGovNow platform, motivating them to discover its capabilities and explore...

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Three days of technology at the service of citizens: WeGovNow labs in San Donà

“New technologies can improve the collaboration between citizens and public administrations” – these were the words Andrea Cereser, mayor of the WeGovNow pilot site San Donà di Piave, used to initiate another important WeGovNow event in his city. From 14-16 February, the Venetian City hosted a three-day event, organised by the WeGovNow project consortium,...

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The local innovation ecosystem of Turin meets WeGovNow

On 1st February, WeGovNow was hosted by Open Incet, the Open Innovation Centre of Turin, where the WeGovNow platform’s technical enablers have been brought together with the key stakeholders relevant to current and prospective local use cases in which the platform will be utilised.

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Out now: The third WeGovNow newsletter

With the release of the third version of its prototype platform, our project has achieved another important milestone and the WeGovNow platform is now ready for being piloted under day-to-day conditions in Turin, London and San Donà di Piave. To make this happen, our project team has closely collaborated over the last months. A series of local events were...

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San Donà and WeGovNow receive Italian Innovation Prize

Our project partner San Donà di Piave has been honoured with the National innovation Prize SMAU 2017 for its outstanding implementation of smart city development projects fostering participatory community management and urban regeneration in the municipality, with WeGovNow being one driver behind this success story.

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Successful WeGovNow stakeholder workshop in London

A further fruitful WeGovNow stakeholder workshop was hosted by the London Borough of Southwark. Representatives from the municipality, local NGOs and citizens' networks came together at the Canada Water Library in London to enage in an constructive dialogue on the current WeGovNow prototype and its incoproration into the day-to-day work in the municipality.

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Venetian citizens impressed by WeGovNow prototype at San Donà fair

An interactive WeGovNow booth captured visitors of a popular annual fair in San Donà di Piave, providing an ideal setting for an open, constructive dialogue between citizens and project representatives on the potentials that lie in the WeGovNow prototype as well as on the local issues for which the community engagement platform could be harnessed.

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