The online hearing is dealing with ‘Future political relations’, for high-level experts and practitioners from around the world and a panel of Parliamentarians.

The Online hearing will take place via audio (telephone) and web conference, in two 1.5-hour sessions, on consecutive days – 18th, & 19thJuly 2006. It is possible to participate in any, or all of the sessions. Times are 13:00 -14:30 CEST for the Tuesday session and 15:00 -16:30 for the Wednesday session.

CONCEPT

In each session, experts will present their experiences (case-studies) and Visions, offering practical ideas, methodologies, tools or solutions to a panel of scrutinising Parliamentarians. As a registered panel member your role, would be to review these proposals, question the Visionaries and experts, and decide if you think any of these are worth taking up!

In preparation for the sessions the participating Panel members are encouraged to be ready to follow up this hearing, in experimenting with any Visions/solutions that appeal to them – with our continued support and assistance, of course.

SESSION THEMES

Tues July 18th	"LISTENING PARLIAMENTARIANS: PARLIAMENTARIANS RELATIONS WITH CITIZENS IN DEVELOPING THEIR CAPACITY TO LISTEN & REPRESENT"
Wed July 19th	"CITIZENS INITIATIVES: IMPROVING CITIZENS CAPACITY TO TAKE ACTION AND INFLUENCE"

(Further information)

EXPERTS & VISIONARIES:

• Mary Pat MacKinnon Director of thePublic Involvement NetworkCPRN (Canada) & Joseph Peters, Ascentum (Canada)
• Tom Steinberg, MySociety(UK)
• Glen Tarman, New Media Campaign Manager “Make Poverty History” - Trade Justice Movement (UK)
• Ross Ferguson, e-Democracy Programme Director, Hansard Society (UK).
• Gez Smith, DELIB (UK)
• Zack Rosen, Founder, CivicSpaceLabs (USA)
• Richard Allan, CISCO (UK)
• Don Lennihan, Crossing Boundaries Commission (Canada)
• Lars Hasselblad Torres, Senior Researcher, AmericaSpeaks, USA
• Prof. Stephen Coleman,Institute of Communications, University of Leeds (UK)

If you are  interrested to participate please do not hesitate to contact  


Please note! Due to the fact that places are limited,  you have to  register.

If you are interested but cannot participate, all documentation will be posted on the EPRI website by the end of July/beginning of August. Visionaries have agreed to answer questions online, until the end of the summer.