Public policy proposals on youth and online political participation

The authors link this disengagement with the rise of neoliberalism and the economic crisis, which are the causes of youth's diminishing participation.

The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) was implemented to increase the participation of civil society organizations.

It provides a definition of the term and an explanation of the Development Account Project for citizen engagement. An online questionnaire (METEP) that measures citizen engagement and eParticipation can be downloaded.

It focuses on the civic and political participation of young people and its objective is to determine what should be done to encourage youths to be more participatory.

Mobility, decision-making, work, entrepreneurship, policies on alcohol and social changes are some of the issues covered.

The resources are divided into social inclusion, political participation and economic crisis, all of them focused on youth.

The Catalan Government seeks a more direct relationship between itself and citizens by involving them in issues that affect their daily life, at a social level or concerning infrastructures.

The differences can occur in populations, regions, countries or companies, and strategies are being planned to minimize them. This document studies the changes that have taken place in Serbia.

Its objective is to provide tools that everyone can use to participate in public life, strengthen communities and build democracy.

There are links that relate the term to the digital divide and pertinent news.

Section of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) featuring data on communication at a world, regional and country level. The ITU is the United Nations agency specialized in ICT. Its main goal is to achieve global intercommunication based on all usable devices.

Since the Lisbon Strategy (2005), the budget for ICT is one of the largest in Europe. Nevertheless, citizen participation policies still face the challenge of differing paces of technological acceleration in countries with different economies in addition to the changing nature of the network (Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web and the Internet of Things).

It features the differences with other types of democracy and some examples.

Website of Liquid Democracy, a non-profit organization that promotes democratic participation by contributing new concepts. Since 2009, it has been focused on the potential of the internet to create more decision-making techniques and methods. It develops software solutions to create tools for digital participation.

The Hanselminute Podcast is Hanselman’s blog, a programmer, teacher and speaker who talks about everything he finds interesting to anyone who want to listen to him.

It also explains its decline in places where it had been a reference. To find this change of trend, the authors look at the nature of representative democracy, the problems that arise when putting it into practice and the alternative of direct democracy.

This leads the authors to find improvements for democracy in Croatia, which has had a direct democracy since the 2010 constitutional change, following the possibility of not becoming an EU member. It also examines Croatia’s problems in implementing direct democracy.

Webpage featuring the definition of inclusive democracy from the Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy and explaining its characteristics. Other types of democracy are described, along with their applications. There are links to complement the information.

Coggan is a journalist for The Economist and Unger is one of the most important political and social thinkers of our time, who calls for a less rigid and hierarchical society that gives more access to citizens.