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Online discourse with DEMOS-platform from TuTech starts on October 17th.
Family-friendly places of domicile - a topic that gains in importance more and more. In the competition of inhabitants, financial resources and the settlement of companies this theme has increased to be an important location factor.
In connection with the Hamburg concept "Growing City" being a "family-friendly city" is a topic of high significance. The concept of the "Growing City" comprises the following goals: increasing the number of inhabitants, increasing economic growth, improving the traffic situation, increasing available apartment and industrial areas, increasing the international attractiveness and awareness of Hamburg.
What does it mean: a family-friendly place of residence? How do you think is the situation to live with a family in Hamburg? How is the situation in various districts? What bothers you in everyday life? What measures have to be taken, that more families decide to live in Hamburg? Do you know good examples? These are only a few of the questions that will be discussed with the inhabitants of Hamburg.
All inhabitants are called up to discuss! Get information about projects and planning in Hamburg! Assist to develop a guideline for family-friendly living in Hamburg!
The online discourse starts on October 17th and will last until November 12th.
Web: http://www.familienleben.hamburg.de
DEMOS from TuTech
DEMOS stands for Delphi Mediation Online System. DEMOS is a web-based platform enabling fruitful and constructive debate between citizens and politicians with the intention of facilitating and encouraging "online-democracy". The DEMOS approach aims to powerfully support the public debate online. It consists of two complementary parts, the participation methodology and the technical platform.
DEMOS: Towards a democratic, user-friendly application:
The DEMOS technical platform provides tools for helping the participants to break up into sub-groups (user management), conducting surveys and collaborating on joint statements (discourse management). One of its most important components is the graphical user interface (GUI), as it communicates the underlying concept of DEMOS to the users. It has to visualize complex functions like forums, libraries, news section, process overview, personal bookmarks and mails. All functions are served by a powerful backend system, build upon only mature, well-supported, and widely used technology.
The participation methodology integrates different sociological methods in the so-called DEMOS process, which provides support for three phases of discussions: broadening, deepening and consolidating the discussion. Ideally, this structured discussion process leads to political consensus. In practice, participants may continue to disagree, but the reasons for the disagreement will have been made clear and comprehensible. The participation methodology is also concerned with questions of motivation and how to relate the discourse to the political process, e.g. identification of suitable subjects, adaptable rule systems to encourage active participation, addressing problems of result implementation.
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