Post conference update
The Visby conference is over. And it's formal proceedings, "The Visby Declaration" has been posted on the precidency's website. The proceedings contains a lot of the right words, mostly in the correct order. So we're glad to see that the precidency have listened to us and others.
We did attend the conference and met a lot of great people. Our report was mentioned several times, this URL was given to the participants and we even had some mainstream press coverage of this inititative.
Overall we're happy how this turned out, that a few persons with a blog and a text-editor can co-create an agenda which is taken seriously even by Ministers. It is a great first step for opening up these processes and we'd like to, once again, thank all of you who have contributed and supported us.
We will continue pushing this during the rest of the Swedish Precidency and try to forward our perspective to the upcoming Spanish Precidency so that your ideas which we've collected and formulated is brought into the formal Granada Strategy.
But we also recognize that the issues and stakeholders during the spring, will not be the same as we've worked with this fall and that being close to the precidency matters.
Therefore, we call upon citizens in Spain to help us. This is Our Visby Agenda, calling out for the formation of an "Our Granada Strategy".
In the meantime. This is Our Visby Agenda.
This, is Our Visby Agenda
Ladies and gentlemen. It is conference time, therefore we are proud to publish what we call "The Visby Conference Edition".
Download it (doc, pdf, prezi-presentation), read it, spread it, blog it. And if you're a policy maker: implement it!
Thank you everybody for helping out in the process.
We are also very grateful for all the support we have been given from the Swedish Government and are happy to announce that we have been invited and will indeed be attending the conference next week. This is what participatory policy making should look like.
Monday update #3
We love Mondays, and we love writing policy papers. Therefore, our third weekly update of Our Visby Agenda has now been published.
Take a look at the agenda, as it looks today and help make it better! (or re-mix it into your own of course)
It is improved, but not done. This is the version we'll present on Internetdagarna on Wednesday, come and listen. There will be an update next week, just hours before the beginning of the Visby conference.
Monday agenda update #2
We love Mondays, and we love writing policy papers. Therefore, our second weekly update of Our Visby Agenda has now been published.
The second version is slightly improved, the whole team have been occupied by real work this week, but still, it has evolved. So, take a look at the agenda, as it looks today and help make it better! (or re-mix it into your own of course)
On a related note
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We love Mondays!
We love Mondays, and we love writing policy papers. Therefore, from now on we'll publish an update of "Our Visby Agenda" every monday until we reach a point where it becomes stable.
The first version is published today, we'll call it "A good starting point". So, take a look at the agenda, as it looks today and help make it better! (or re-mix it into your own of course)
We’re open for business!
The official report by SCF Associates has now been published. "A Green Knowledge Society" - An ICT policy agenda to 2015 for Europe's future knowlege society". The Swedish government has also publicly invited comments, thus, our work to formulate Our Visby Agenda has begun.
In order to write Our Visby Agenda, we need your help with ideas, comments and brilliant insights. Therefore we've been working the last few days on ways to collect ideas. This is what we have come up with so far. Some are really easy, some more advanced:
- 1. Sign the petition, show your support for the process
- 2. Suggest and vote on the most important policy-issues
- 3. Suggest and vote on what questions we should ask
- 4. Leave comments on the official report
- 5. Write your own agenda/manifesto/top-10-list on your blog, or anywhere, and send us the link (stefan@visbyagenda.se), and we will publish it on the "Other Visby Agendas"-section.
- 6. Start a blog-meme and tag others (se the participation page)
Write a Visby Agenda! (we will)
The European Union is about to form a new ICT policy agenda replacing the current i2010 vision.
A new plan will be discussed during the Swedish precidency, a consultancy firm (SCF Associates) have been preparing a report identifying the key ICT policy questions. It is supposed to be presented during September, and discussed at a conference in Visby, November 9-10. It is called, the Visby Agenda.
During the last weeks. Several persons have whispered that the draft reports are incoherent and lacks clarity. They claim that anyone could write a better Visby Agenda. Don't just complain. Let's fix it.
On this site we will present our suggestion for a Visby Agenda, and we invite you all to help.
We also think that multiplicity is good. This is the Internet. Even if you don't agree with what we suggest. Write your own Visby Agenda. The more the better. We will link to all suggestions from this page, may the best succeed.
What is the most important ICT policy issues for the European Union? Twitter it (#visbyagenda), Blog it (ping us!), e-mail us (stefan@visbyagenda.se), or leave a comment here.
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