Restoring Public Trust

To restore public trust we need a sense of belonging and ownership throughout society. Negotiations between conflicting interests need to be undertaken with mutual respect. This is one of the overall aims of LiquidFeedback, a research project on how to build trust and mutual understanding by facilitating such negotiations on the internet. It’s all about credible opinion formation and decision making for just about any kind of large scale group we may find ourselves in, as citizens, members of our local communities, or civil society organizations.

Watch the video statement by Andreas Nitsche on the occasion of the theme days “Restoring Public Trust” at the Thomas Mann House, a residency center and space for transatlantic debate owned by the Federal Republic of Germany.

EU Projects

WeGovNow—Towards #WeGovernment: Collective and participative approaches for addressing local policy challenges

The WeGovNow project has developed and piloted a new type of civic engagement platform that supports communication and collaboration between citizens, civil society and public administrations. By involving citizens as partners in the delivery of public services and as active agents for and of their community, the WeGovNow platform helps addressing local policy challenges in a participatory manner.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 693514.

CO3—Digital Disruptive Technologies to Co-create, Co-produce and Co-manage

CO3, Digital Disruptive Technologies to Co-create, Co-produce and Co-manage Open Public Services along with Citizens, aims at assessing the benefits and risks of disruptive technologies, namely: blockchain, augmented reality, geolocated social network, interactive democracy tools, and gamification, in the co-creation, co-production and co-management of public services with citizens as PAs partners.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 822615.