Via Alex Moll on Twitter, I just came across OpenGov.gr, the website for the Greek Open Government Initiative. From the English language version:
Opengov.gr has been designed to serve the principles of transparency, deliberation, collaboration and accountability and includes three initiatives:
Οpen calls for the recruitment of public administration officials. Top level and mid-level openings in the public sector are available on the Internet. Applications are submitted on-line using a platform available on the opengov.gr website. See the latest Open Calls here (in Greek).
Electronic deliberation. Almost every piece of draft legislation or even policy initiative by the government, are posted in a blog like platform prior to their submission to parliament. Citizens and organisations can post their comments, suggestions and criticisms article-by-article. See the latest Electronic deliberations here (in Greek).
Labs OpenGov. An open innovation initiative that brings together ideas and proposals from citizens, the public and the private sectors. Labs.OpenGov.gr attempts to release the power of decentralised knowledge and explore new ways to tackle modern public administration problems. See the latest Labs events here (in Greek).
The online deliberation site runs on WordPress using at least one plugin (for up-or-down voting).
A couple of screenshots below (using Google Translate).
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This particular “Public Consultation on the creation of new corporate structure” ran from November 22 through December 7, 2011. Two documents related to the consultation are available for download (PDF). The results are available for download as well (Excel) and include the list of full-text comments including number of positive and negative votes received.
If any of our Greek readers familiar with this site could share some additional information, that would be great. For example, how popular is this offering? How are comments being processed? The usual stuff. Ευχαριστώ!
Tim, I know that there are some 3-4,000 people following the initiative, the media has had a mixed reporting about the enterprise. Negative in the sense that the open-source process has been overrun by other concerns and positive in the sense that mobilization of crowdsourcing can effect positively the much needed changes. I will ask key people to feedback your site with more detail.
Dear Tim, you can have a look at a recently updated presentation about opengov.gr here http://www.slideshare.net/almel/opengovgr-a-brief-evaluation
thanks
Thanks, Alexandros and Ioanis!