[p2p-research] EU Funding Opportunity and Open RFPs

Mon Aug 24 15:38:21 CEST 2009

I know that Paul and myself are interested in putting our shoulders
into work like this, too. We're not strategically located to head up
European projects, but we are interested in participation in projects
that need developers, online infrastructure, or special custom
functionality, networked devices, mobile devices, food or fuel/energy
and materials production, social publishing applications, and network
analysis/simulation

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Matt
Cooperrider<mattcooperrider at gmail.com> wrote:
> Athina,
> Let's connect on this offline.  I'll email you individually.
>
> Michel and all,
> I'll certainly report back if any progress is made.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> HI Matt,
>>
>> Thanks for suggesting this. This is not something I can  materially do
>> myself at this stage, but I think it is an excellent idea. Adam and Athina
>> already responded positively to this call, and Athina indicated her
>> willingness to coordinate this initiative through VIRTEC in Hull.
>>
>> I think the best thing is to co-coordinate this with her. My impression,
>> and I may be wrong, is that any external-EU involvement will need to be
>> paired with EU partners. But Athina's uni has experts who could verify that.
>>
>> Could I suggest that you talk this through with Athina, and then report
>> back to the p2p research list?
>>
>> Michel
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Matt Cooperrider
>> <mattcooperrider at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Check out this potential for an e-participation pilot project with the
>>> EU.  The submission deadline is about a month away.  While I and other
>>> folks at Collabforge are interested, we are already slammed this
>>> month.  Besides, we'd need European proxies to head this up.
>>>
>>> This gave me an idea which could apply to lots of RFPs like this:
>>>
>>> - We make an Open RFP google group.
>>> - Anyone who is looking for partners for a project could dump the RFP
>>> into a page, for group comments
>>> - Members of the group could then work out some agreement for how to
>>> apply for the job together.
>>>
>>> For reference, Sunlight Labs attempted something similar earlier this
>>> year:
>>> http://www.sunlightlabs.com/blog/2009/06/17/we-are-going-bid-recoverygov/
>>>
>>> I think such a list might fit nicely into the OpenKollab ecology, and
>>> could be called "OK RFP" or some such.
>>>
>>> So two questions:
>>> 1. what do you think of the proposed OK RFP group?
>>> 2. anyone want to team up on this EU project?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Matt Cooperrider
>>>
>>> On 8/15/09, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > This seems like a great funding round, and congruent with the p2p value
>>> > system ... it's focus is 'political decision-making though',
>>> >
>>> > I think some of our American  and Australian friends, already active in
>>> > this
>>> > field,  if they can find suitable european proxies and collaborators,
>>> > could
>>> > profit from this as well, but I have no idea how this could work and if
>>> > it
>>> > is allowed ...
>>> >
>>> > I think Athina, and perhaps others, have already quite some experience
>>> > with
>>> > such projects ...
>>> >
>>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> > From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
>>> > Date: Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:53 PM
>>> > Subject: EU funding - for peer governance ?
>>> > To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>, Athina Karatzogianni <
>>> > athina.k at gmail.com>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Hi Michel, Hi Athina
>>> >
>>> > EU Funding options - in english below
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > http://www.telecom.gouv.fr/rubriques-menu/soutiens-financements/programmes-communautaires/cip-programme-tic-du-cip/programme-tic-du-cip/appels-propositions-1996.html
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > http://people.thetransitioner.org/profiles/blogs/is-there-any-way-to-benefit
>>> >
>>> > Appel à projet européen :
>>> >
>>> > telecom.gouv.fr<http://www.telecom.gouv.fr/rubriques-menu/soutiens-financements/programmes-communautaires/cip-programme-tic-du-cip/programme-tic-du-cip/appels-propositions-1996.html>
>>> >
>>> > *Appel CIP-ICT PSP-2009-3 bis*
>>> >
>>> > L’appel à propositions CIP-ICT PSP-2009-3bis a été lancé le 5 juin
>>> > 2009.
>>> > Cet
>>> > appel sera clos le 23 septembre 2009, son budget est de 7 millions
>>> > d’euros.
>>> >
>>> > Thème couvert par cet appel : Des TIC pour les gouvernements et la
>>> > gouvernance, objectif 3.5 : eParticipation, responsabiliser et
>>> > impliquer
>>> > les
>>> > citoyens dans la transparence du processus décisionnel de l’UE.
>>> >
>>> > -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
>>> > *Objective 3.5:*
>>> >
>>> > e-Participation - empower and involve citizens in transparent
>>> > decisionmaking
>>> > in the EU20Funding Instrument: Pilot Type B – It is intended to support
>>> > several pilot actions for up to 7 M€ of EU contribution. Focus and
>>> > outcomesThe overall aim is to address with ICT based solutions today's
>>> > challenges in policy making. These include : fighting the perceived
>>> > democratic deficit, which requires a new relationship between
>>> > politicians
>>> > and citizens, and which is particularly challenging at EU level;
>>> > reconnecting citizens with politics and policy-making and sustaining
>>> > citizens’ involvement; reducing the complexity of decision-making and
>>> > legislation processes within the EU.It is intended to support several
>>> > pilots, each focusing on at least one of the following goals:
>>> >
>>> > 1. Enabling transparent decision and policy making by supporting the
>>> > drafting of legislative texts for politicians and decision-makers. The
>>> > piloted solutions should help improve the clarity and understanding of
>>> > legislative texts and content for non-specialists and in a
>>> > multi-lingual
>>> > environment, thus facilitating citizens' participation in the process.
>>> >
>>> > 2. Enhancing the direct participation of citizens and civil society in
>>> > the
>>> > decision-making process itself, and improving the access to relevant
>>> > content
>>> > and available options, thus enabling them to interact with
>>> > decision-makers
>>> > in real time and with concrete contributions.
>>> >
>>> > 3.Involving citizens in the policy-making process by enhancing social
>>> > networking capacities, using new intermediation models, creating
>>> > collaborative input to policymaking (e.g. data gathering, sharing
>>> > collective
>>> > knowledge, Web2.0 technologies) thus enabling the provision of
>>> > policy-making
>>> > related services by citizens.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > *Conditions and characteristics*
>>> >
>>> >> The solutions proposed should clearly address an EU legislative,
>>> >> policy
>>> >> or
>>> > decisionmaking process and contribute to improving the process
>>> > concerned
>>> > and
>>> > to increasing the participation of the public. Attention should be
>>> > given to
>>> > solutions which are easy to use and understand by citizens (rather than
>>> > e.g.
>>> > by ICT and other experts).
>>> >
>>> >> The pilot should involve a significant number of citizens from several
>>> >> EU
>>> > Member States. The needs of decision-makers and citizens should be
>>> > taken
>>> > into account from a very early stage of the pilot.
>>> >
>>> >> The ICT solutions should enable a wider group of people to voice their
>>> > opinions, provide input and get involved in politics. All projects will
>>> > contribute to improving the usability of web-based and other ICT tools
>>> > in
>>> > the field. Accessibility21, multi-lingual and multi-cultural issues
>>> > need to
>>> > be taken into account as well as adapting the tool to be used by people
>>> > who
>>> > may have only limited knowledge of the subject area and low level IT
>>> > skills.
>>> >
>>> >> Proposals should demonstrate a clear understanding and definition of
>>> >> the
>>> > institutional environment concerned and the civil society actors
>>> > involved.
>>> > The pilots must include and mobilise all relevant actors involved,
>>> > including
>>> > decision-makers, citizens, civil society groups and the private sector.
>>> >
>>> >> Along with the technical pilot phase, the pilots will also have to
>>> > identify and develop sustainable business models that would grant
>>> > financial
>>> > self-sustainability to the proposed strategy in the long term.
>>> >
>>> >> The pilots will also have to address legal, administrative and
>>> >> protocol
>>> > issues related to the real working and operational conditions.
>>> > The pilots will have to produce an appropriate evaluation framework so
>>> > as
>>> > to
>>> > allow service impact assessment and, in parallel, provide an analysis
>>> > of
>>> > the
>>> > proposed solution in terms of the costs and benefits of implementation.
>>> >
>>> >> The pilots should exploit the experience of other Commission-funded
>>> > programmes or applications, in particular projects financed under the
>>> > eParticipation Preparatory Action20.
>>> >
>>> >> The proposals should provide an effective dissemination plan,
>>> >> especially
>>> > in terms of the impact at European level, including networking and ways
>>> > to
>>> > attract a wider audience to participate. The pilots should also provide
>>> > training material and modules, and operational manuals so as to
>>> > guarantee
>>> > better acceptance and adoption of the proposed solutions.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > *Expected impact*
>>> >
>>> > 1. High level of maturity in the use of ICTs in transparent,
>>> > participatory
>>> > and accountable decision-making.
>>> >
>>> > 2. Demonstrated improvements in policy and decision-making
>>> >
>>> > 3. Enhanced citizens' capacity to participate in EU policy and
>>> > decision-making through wide scale collaboration across the EU
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhurakij_Pundit_University -
>>> > Research:
>>> > http://www.dpu.ac.th/dpuic/info/Research.html - Think thank:
>>> > http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI
>>> >
>>> > P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net  -
>>> > http://blog.p2pfoundation.net
>>> >
>>> > Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss:
>>> > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org
>>> >
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>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> http://mattcoop.com
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhurakij_Pundit_University - Research:
>> http://www.dpu.ac.th/dpuic/info/Research.html - Think thank:
>> http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI
>>
>> P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net  - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net
>>
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>>
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