Title:	TO TAKE PART PARTICIPATING: POLITIKA 2.0
Author(s):	Mikel Agirregabiria , Maixabel Azpillaga , Jone Berriozabal , Jorge De La Herran , Pablo Garaizar , Alfonso Gil , Jon Goikolea , Ricardo Ibarra , Idoia Llano , Rafa Larreina , M@k Buscaimposibles , Os
ISBN:	978-972-8924-78-2
Editors:	Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2009
Edition:	1
Keywords:	Political innovation, citizen Participation, eDemocracy, Politics 2.0
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	123
Last Page:	130
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	This paper describes the project undertaken in the Basque Country by a group of bloggers working on a collaborative way for improving the possibilities of citizen participation in institutional decision-making processes. The experience started with a meeting among members of this group of bloggers and legislators of the Basque Parliament doing a reflection about how politics is made and what can be done to improve it. The experience involves the use of web 2.0 tools, with a view to sharing a reflection and creating a proposal for improving the services used by the Basque Parliament to favour institutional innovation based on Openness and Participation. The Parliamentary Chairwoman suggested, after the first meeting, to fix efforts and use the potential of the group to create three virtual workshops: 1- to propose a makeover of the parliament’s website to open it to the citizens, 2- to identify needs and educational pills, courses on web 2.0 tools to transform parliamentary representatives and staff in 2.0 users, and 3- to run a course at the Summer University of the Basque Country. All of them with the aim of building, collaborating with the people who wish to contribute and commit themselves, improving a system that needs to adapt to another type of citizenship and other types of leadership, horizontal in form, with real participation possibilities and advocating the ‘2.0 Decalogue’ presented by the Parliamentary Chairwoman in Bilbao to extend innovation to the political sphere. The name of the group of bloggers is Política 2.0 and group’s activities and progress can be consulted in this wiki: www.politica20.wikispaces.com
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