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The '''Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era''' is a highlight in a series of structured dialogues aiming to explore new ideas for reinventing democracy. The first one, [[Reinventing democracy (YiA 1.3)|Reinventing democracy]]) was a week long co-laboratory with 12 Greeks and 12 Cypriots. The second ([[Youth envisage and design their ideal future (YiA 5.1)|Youth envisage and design their ideal future]]) engaged almost 30 Cypriots | The '''Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era''' is a highlight in a series of structured dialogues aiming to explore new ideas for reinventing democracy. The first one, [[Reinventing democracy (YiA 1.3)|Reinventing democracy]]) was a week long co-laboratory with 12 Greeks and 12 Cypriots. The second ([[Youth envisage and design their ideal future (YiA 5.1)|Youth envisage and design their ideal future]]) engaged almost 30 Cypriots. This third co-laboratory is co-organized together with the [[Digital Futures Task Force]] of the European Commission. The aim is to explore how future and emerging technologies can contribute towards designing a better system of governance. | ||
==Background and Overview== | ==Background and Overview== | ||
The project aims to bring together 24 young people from all across Europe in an attempt to envision, conceptualize and design new models of democratic governance that capitalize on the possibilities offered by contemporary as well as emerging digital technologies. The project was born as a joint initiative between the [[Future Worlds Center]], the [[Digital Futures]] Task Force of the European Commission | The project aims to bring together 24 young people from all across Europe in an attempt to envision, conceptualize and design new models of democratic governance that capitalize on the possibilities offered by contemporary as well as emerging digital technologies. The project was born as a joint initiative between the [[Future Worlds Center]], and the [[Digital Futures]] Task Force of the European Commission and it is a part of the activities carried out under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency. The two-day event will be organized as an interactive co-laboratory, fully utilizing up-to-date methodologies and technologies of the science of structured democratic dialogue. | ||
The co-laboratory will take place back-to-back with the Cyprus EU Youth Conference (Cyprus Presidency event) to enable the participation of up to 8 delegates from this youth conference. This builds on the priority of the Cypriot Presidency to address the topic of Youth Participation in democrtic life in Europe as a main priority of the trio PL-DK-CY, adopted by the ministers' meeting in the Council of Education, Youth, Culture and Sport. | The co-laboratory will take place back-to-back with the Cyprus EU Youth Conference (Cyprus Presidency event) to enable the participation of up to 8 delegates from this youth conference. This builds on the priority of the Cypriot Presidency to address the topic of Youth Participation in democrtic life in Europe as a main priority of the trio PL-DK-CY, adopted by the ministers' meeting in the Council of Education, Youth, Culture and Sport. | ||
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* DG CONNECT of the European Commission (Digital Futures Task Force) | * DG CONNECT of the European Commission (Digital Futures Task Force) | ||
* [[European Youth Forum]] (pending formal declaration) | * [[European Youth Forum]] (pending formal declaration) | ||
* [[Cyprus Youth Board]] | * [[Cyprus Youth Board]] | ||
* [[Ministry of Education]], Cyprus (pending formal declaration) | * [[Ministry of Education]], Cyprus (pending formal declaration) | ||
