participatory governance

syros_14.07.2012

the power of the crowd

some facts
crowd (people) has power and wisdom 70% of a decision for a product or procedure is made from what others are saying (so we must get involved) participatory governance is an emerging method in public and private sector crowdsourcing techniques is a distributed problemsolving and production model these methods can solve problems and promote solutions

scope
we use internet technologies to get the crowd involved study the problem, design the procedure, implement the solution, educate people and involvers design new implementations and scenarios two sectors for application
public governance: check parties, formulate policies, nongovernment actions, monitor governments work private sector: problem solving, corporate governance, new products, company ethics code etc

public governance
restore the relationship between people and power participation of the crowd to shape policies control the implementation of the mandate governments, local authorities, municipalities, special state services etc

private sector
proposals, comments, remarks etc for the corporate governance and the internal procedures of an organization / company new products and services feedback for products and services build audience we listen to our clients, we pay attention on their remarks, we improve our products get involved in the discussions for products and services

who
high experienced partners
Theodoros Karounos, Head of Advisory Board (@karounos) Michalis Psalidas, Managing Director (@psalidas)

Giorgos Karamanolis, Chief Technical Officer (@karamanolis)

high qualified team great experience from public sector (open government tasks in Greece)

past projects (some of them)

opengov http://www.opengov.gr di@vgeia http://diavgeia.gov.gr geodata.gov.gr http://geodata.gov.gr police on line - http://astynomia.gr illegalsigns.gov.gr http://illegalsigns.gov.gr labs.opengov.gr http://labs.opengov.gr open taxation data http://gsis.gr open public administration http://openpad.gov.gr stability program monitoring - http://antiproedros.gov.gr/

most recent project

http://policymonitor.gr comparative presentation of the Greek parties by policy crowdpolicy platform
comments positive / negative voting new proposals

social media integration

project for Kathimerini (www.kathimerini.gr)

@
www.crowdpolicy.org @crowdpolicy