1st WeGov Workshop within eChallenges e-2011, in October 2011

From WeGov:

"WeGov is happy to announce the 1st public WeGov Workshop within the eChallenges e-2011 conference, on the 26th - 28th October, 2011 in Florence, Italy.

The Workshop aims to demonstrate the WeGov toolkit prototype to a panel of experts and stakeholders in the field. A panel will present on the implications of this tool-kit for policy makers and citizens alike, within the context of social media. Round table as well as open discussions on use case applications that have been developed within the project, are scheduled in order to gather participants and attendees feedback.

The workshop is the first within the project that opens up project results in an iterative manner to a wider community of interest. For this reason we are pleased to invite you to participate in this event and to add your voice to the many already shaping WeGov outcomes. Come be a part of an exciting innovative project where we can shape how policy and social media worlds interact!

About eChallenges 2011

The eChallenges 2011 Conference takes place in the beautiful city of Florence, Italy, hosted by the Regional Government of Tuscany. This is the twenty-first in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission and hosted by national governments, which regularly attracts over 600 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt, good practice and innovation.

The WeGov workshop will take place between 14:00 and 15:30 on the 27th of October 2011. You can learn more about registration for the event and the conference here:
https://www.echallenges.org/e2011/default.asp?page=registration    

The Workshop Agenda as well as the official Workshop Invitation are attached here in pdf files.

Find more about e-2011 and the e-2011 Agenda by clicking <http://www.echallenges.org/e2011/default.asp?page=home> here.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Best wishes,

The WeGov Team

About the project:

WeGov has been funded with support from the European Commission under the SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME THEME ICT 2009.7.3 ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling. The project aims to provide the tools and techniques for closing the loop between policy makers and the citizens, taking advantage of the plethora of well established social networking sites. These tools will enable policy makers to move away from limitations involved in the current practice of government hosted websites and instead to make use of the high levels of participation and rich discussions that already take place in existing social networking communities. The pilots are conducted in Germany and within the European Parliament.

For more information please visit:  http://www.wegov-project.eu/"