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Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies for direct democracy and
economic empowerment DCENT Launch Event London, March 2014 [email protected]
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Participant organisation map
Participant organisation map
º Nesta, UK (coordinator)º CNRS-Centre d’economie de la Sorbonne, Franceº Dyne.org Foundation, The Netherlandsº Forum Virium Helsinki, Finlandº International Modern Media Institute, Icelandº NEO Europeº Open Knowledge Foundation, UKº Open University of Catalunya and Barcelona Media, Spainº World Wide Web Consortium, France
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D-CENT concept and objectives
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D-CENT will...
• …provide social movements with immediately useable digital tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment
• …grow long-term alternatives to today’s highly
centralised platforms and power structures
• …bring together hackers, academics, and policy makers with a large number of citizen groups and democracy activists across Europe
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D-CENT will ...
• …develop the building blocks of an open, decentralised, privacy-aware Digital Ecosystem
• …implement a distributed and standardised identity
management giving citizens control over their personal and social data
• …enable real-time collective democratic deliberation and decision making, sharing of open data, and social digital currencies for the common good
• …promote large-scale adoption of open standards, free
software, open data and open APIs
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Distributed Social Networking
• User control of personal data in a decentralized ecosystem based on open standards and built on federated social web software and protocols
• Group collaboration and open data crowd-sourcing integration
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Citizens empowerment and democracy
• Deliberation by Your Priorities
and DemocracyOS + collaborative law making and authentication of Open Ministry + real-time polling and decision making integrating social feedback from citizens
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Linking civic participation to sustainable economic models
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D-CENT Pilots: Iceland, Finland, Spain
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Better Reykjavik
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ComPAHs Mobile
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Open Ministry
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D-CENT principles
• Citizen ownership of data and access to knowledge • Security and privacy by design • Federation, open source, open standards • Inclusiveness, accessibility, collective governance • Exploiting the network effect through mass user adoption
and replicability across Europe
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Thank you for your time Website: www.dcentproject.eu Twitter: @dcentproject Vimeo: vimeo.com/dcentproject Slideshare: slideshare.net/dcentproject
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 610349.