Start Date : 6 Apr 11   End Date : 9 Apr 11 Location: Lleida, Catalunya, Spain

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IOPD aims to go deep into how new technologies can be incorporated in the design of Citizen Participation Policies to improve democratic quality. The event addresses itself to political, technical and skilled people in charge as well as to all those people of the business world, associative and members’ organizations', university students and non members interested in the subject matter.
The Conference deals with 3 issues:

• How communication and information technologies have an impact on public management, citizens’ participation and democracy.
• Social networks, virtual platforms and participatory initiatives.
• How new technologies contribute to create a culture of transparency and how Internet can support public policies design.

The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD) is a space open to all cities in the world and all associations, organizations and research centres interested in learning about, exchanging impressions and applying experiences of participatory democracy on a local scale with the aim of deepening the roots of democracy in municipal government.

The network was created in 2001 within the framework of the European Commission’s URB-AL Programme for decentralized cooperation. Since 2006 the IOPD has coordinated with United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Currently, the OIDP has a total of 500 members. Its membership is made up of 292 local governments and 208 collaborator members from 38 countries in the world.

Venue Name: 11th Conference of the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy
Address: La Llotja – Congress Centre, Tortosa Avenue, 4.