Future Democracy '10 & EuroPetition Workshop

UK's leading annual conference on all aspects of e-democracy, from e-campaigning, e-petitions and e-voting to the use of the internet and new technologies in the policy cycle; democratic activity and engagement. Will include the EuroPetition Workshop "Europetitions - managing petitions through partnership working"

What
When	Dec 02, 2010 from 09:00 am to 06:00 pm
Where	Grand Connaught Rooms, 61 - 65 Great Queen Street, London, UK
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Welcome to the UK's leading annual conference on all aspects of e-democracy, from e-campaigning, e-petitions and e-voting to the use of the internet and new technologies in the policy cycle; democratic activity and engagement. The event - our seventh - is set to take place on 2 December 2010 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in central London.

This year's programme is almost complete, and is set to be as strong this year as our regular attendees have come to expect, featuring MPs, analysts, academics, practitioners and citizen representatives.

For the latest updates see the 'programme' area of this site, and for a further idea of what to expect, please click here to view highlights of last year's event on YouTube, courtesy of media partner Catch21 TV.

I look forward to welcoming you in December: please spread the word about our event!

Dan Jellinek, Event Chair.

Location: Grand Connaught Rooms, 61 - 65 Great Queen Street, London, UK - See www.grandconnaughtrooms.com/location/how-to-find-us

Nearest Tube is Covent Garden or Holborn.

Registration & Fees at http://195.40.181.80/fdem10/registration.aspx

Programme
09.00 - 09.30	Registration and coffee
09.30 - 10.10	Keynote: 'Engagingly different': an alternative perspective on inclusion Steve Thompson, Institute of Digital Innovation, University of Teesside
10.10 - 10.45	The PEP-NET Plenary: The European Scene Chair: Dan Jellinek, Founder, Headstar Catherine Howe, Chief Executive, Public-i and Partner, EuroPetition Hans Hagedorn, Facilitator, Citizens' Forum Jeremy Millard, Senior Consultant, Danish Technological Institute
10.45 - 11.15	Coffee & Exhibition
11.15 - 11.55	Plenary debate - Crowdsourcing by Government is a Meaningful Exercise Chair: Andy Williamson, Director, Digital Democracy Programme, Hansard Society Speaking for the motion: Nick Jones, Director of Interactive Services, COI Speaking against: Anthony Zacharzewski, The Democratic Society
11.55 - 12.40	Plenary: First things first - the need for digital inclusion Chair: Andy Williamson, Director, Digital Democracy Programme, Hansard Society Felicity Shaw, Senior Policy Advisor, Race Online 2012 Makayla Miranda Lewis, Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, City University London
12.40 - 13.40	Lunch
13.40 - 14.35	Parallel workshops: Workshop A: Politicians and social networking Chair: Shane Greer, Executive Editor, Total Politics Mary Reid, former Councillor, Chair of e-democracy.org Mark Walker, IT Champion for South East England and Project Manager, Sussex Community Internet Project (SCIP) Workshop B: Large-scale online debate: a world café Sponsored by the Bertelsmann Foundation Facilitator: Paul Johnston, Head of European Public Sector, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group Hans Hagedorn, Facilitator, Citizens' Forum Anna Wohlfarth, Project Manager, Bertelsmann Stiftung Workshop C: Open data and the Big Society Chair: James Crabtree, Comment Editor, FT Simon Burall, Director, Involve
14.35 - 15.30	Parallel workshops: Workshop D: Europetitions - managing petitions through partnership working Moderator: Catherine Howe, Chief Executive, Public-i Kevin O'Malley, Senior Programme Manager, Connecting Bristol, Bristol City Council Peter Cruickshank, International Teledemocracy Centre, Napier University, Edinburgh This workshop will talk focus on how to manage petitions in partnership by looking at the experience of the Europetitions service which supports local authorities in five different countries in creating petitions for the European Parliament. Kevin O'Malley of Bristol City Council, the UK Cluster lead, will talk about UK experience of working in partnership on this project and Peter Cruickshank of Napier University, Edinburgh will provide details of research and lessons learned. Workshop E: Lessons from the online campaign 2010 Chair: Andy Williamson, Hansard Society Mark Pack, Associate Director Digital, Mandate Communications and Former Head of Innovations, Liberal Democrats Will Straw, Editor, Left Foot Forward Speaker from Conservative Central Office (tbc) Workshop F: Apps for democracy: the future is mobile Chair: Richard Sarson, Freelance Technology Journalist Jonathan Simmons, Managing Director, Public Zone Iris Lapinski, Director UK, CDI Europe and Director, Apps for Good
15.30 - 16.00	Coffee & Networking
16:00 - 17:00	Closing Plenary: Question Time Chair: Dan Jellinek, Founder, Headstar Chi Onwurah MP, Labour, Newcastle Central Julian Huppert MP, Liberal Democrat, Cambridge Sue Inglish, Head of Political Programmes, Analysis and Research, BBC News Conservative MP tbc Liberal Democrat MP tbc

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