Chlois 31, Maroussi
Athens
Greece
- Democracy and community development
- Human rights
- Research
- Youth and education
Gov2u (http://www.gov2u.com/ ) was founded in 2005 with the intention of harnessing the potential of ICTs as vital tools for the improvement of representative democracy. The main crux of our activities is the research on edemocracy and civil society issues as well as the development and deployment of open source enabling technologies to facilitate legislative information gathering and dissemination and citizens empowerment. In parallel, we are involved in the targeted dissemination of knowledge and best practice on edemocracy and civil society issues through the organization of, and participation in, conferences, meetings, seminars and publications
• Development of Gov2DemOSS, an open source, generic, informative and collaborative e-participation platform. Currently implemented in the US and soon in Spain
• Partner, in the EU co-funded “Virtual Desktop for the Mobile Elected Official – e-Representative project” FP6 -2004-26985 project. It investigates the potential impact of a "virtual elected representative's desktop" to support the work of elected officials by making legislative services more effective and more tailored to meet their individual requirements.
• Knowledge dissemination activities, including a number of workshops at the 2nd National Conference with International Participation on "Electronic Democracy - Challenges of the Digital Era" and the 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dgo 2006) in San Diego, California.
• Partner in the World eGov Forum