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During the session 6 Civic tech initiatives pitched a education-focused challenge. Here are the notes written by the students during the brainstorm.

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How to make sure that each feels concerned by the democratic revolution proposed by Civic Tech initiatives ?

How to scale these initiatives to be more inclusive ?

What about the skills and literacy behind these new tools and what is the role of education to help future citizen acquire these skills ?

How education systems should be adapted to train a new generation of citizens able to understand the influence of data and algorithms, to think about inclusive tools for participatory democracy, to co-design new services in the smart city, etc. ?

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WHICH CONDITIONS TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS ? 

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WHICH CONDITIONS TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS ? 

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WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO MAKE THE LINK BETWEEN CIVIC TECH AND EDUCATION ?

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WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO MAKE THE LINK BETWEEN CIVIC TECH AND EDUCATION ?

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Since we did not have much time, we decided to brainstorm one governance model and then discuss the requisites, challenges and outcomes of such model.
We imagined a governance model with the following characteristics:

*All members of the school (students, teoachers and staff) have equal voting rights
*An online consultation platform (Democracy OS) would be implemented to allow everyone to cast their votes.
*Periodic offline meetings would complement this online interaction. These offline interactions would be modeled after "town hall" meetings, where people could take stage and explain their proposal.
*The model will be evaluated and will allow further improvements.

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Born in Argentina, Democracy OS is an open-source consultation online platform. It allows people to vote and comment on proposals posted by government. It has been used in several latinamerican countries, including Mexico and Argentina. DemocracyOS_FR is the the team behind the national initiative of this project.

CHALLENGE
DemocracyOS_FR proposed that Universities should have a governance model where students' interests could be represented. The challenge was to imagine how such governance model would be introduced, put into action and evaluated.

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Thank you Maria Molina Calavita for the live on Periscope !!

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FdV Doctoral School (@FdvPhd) from Paris, France. FdV PhD program @criparis Interdisciplinary doctoral school promoting ambitious research projets #LifeScience #NewFrontiers

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This year, France has hosted the Open Government Partnership Global Summit : 70 member countries and hundreds of civil society organizations that promote transparency, citizen participation and democratic innovation.

In the co-construction process of the program, the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity and Sciences Po Paris, had the chance to be selected among 700 proposals to run a session focus on Civic tech and Education.

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Restitution by Gregory and Alicia

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Challenge proposed by CELINE MARTY

Young people call young people to action through a Tour de France : what kind of format could we imagine ?

Group names: Mimi, Anthony, Federica, Elina

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Challenge proposed by NICOLAS PATTE

How to generate collective intelligence in middle-school and high-schools ?

Participants: Hal Plotkin - creative commons (free license to share knowledge) free to learn),  Anat Merut and Marie Laure Fino from EdTechMaster.

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Building a museum to exposed the works done by the students (example - Larry rosenstock prof. Education in Harvard founder of high-tech highschool  - San Diego California who founded an open space school - learning by doings and Lumin learning- cutting down on how you are spending money for education and  - David Wiley )
Who is our Public - students, parents, staff (including cleaning personnel).

How to involve them ? We aim to convince that action is involved not just talking - begin with a game and proceed with discussion. Begin with mobile phones

Cycle for action:
Consultation platform- simple
Explain the need
Arguments everyone
Map synthesis
Collective decisions- by initiator + random choice of participants
Go
Feedback
Challenges:
How do you insure not being judgmental when performing synthesis
Advantages:
First time many people are listened to

VTS sessions for building on collective intelligence - example for a way of promoting discussion and collaboration through art.

The schools are reluctant to share power and open debate

How to reach the public - the public is already present in the school.

Values:
1 value - raise education level, involve the community - the base of democracy is in education - culture of participation and listening to one another
1 condition - school must be convinced - for parliament we have made a movie, come up with affective communication
1 inspiration - the success with the work with the parliament
Future prospects:
The best thing that would happen are not expected but with time you will create community

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DESCRIPTION inspired from tour de france by bike, what kind of events could we organize around france in order to reach out young people (age range 18-35 years old) and raise their awareness around what political engagement really is, as well as the upcoming elections

CHALLENGE how could the events be interesting and attractive to young people? How could we reach out to socially diverse people? How could we essentially approach all the different local populations and empathize with their diverse everyday problems? How could we measure our impact?

PROBLEM there is a lack of information as well as lack of places for open debate. E.g. in schools we don't talk about politics and don't carry debates. Moreover,

CONCRETE SCENARIO Co-organization of different types of events, together with local associations. Adapted events combining citizen-science with fun in local communities.

IMPACT More than 20 different regions all around France

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Challenge proposed by Guillaume ROUYER

How to design a collective intelligence decentralized projects which empowers citizens in political debates ?

Currently contributing to the project by drawing the system between citizen participation and education to enhance the vocabulary of web semantic developed by AV.
What relationships exist between the different elements of the system?
-> characterizing these relationships contributes to the semantic

How to involve more people in the construction of this global vision of society ?
-> make web semantic accessible to more
-> use concrete example to expand the semantic

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Challenge proposed by FLORENT ANDRE

How a budget transparency can be designed to be a relevant tool for citizen empowerment ?

DESCRIPTION
Open Budget is an initiative aiming to promot public access to budget information and to empower people to make decisions about how do they think their annual taxes should be invested and distributed within the different public services.

SCENARIO
How, without an already existing budget education, do you give the word and the power to people? Citizens should be somehow advised about what implies the fact of changing the current budget

CHALLENGE
Inspired by the concept of peer-to-peer learning, the challenge to achieve would be to convert the Open Budget into a peer-to-peer initiative, in where citizens would be advised about the consequences it will have to modify the current budget, but at the same time budget makers would be aware of citizens consciousness, engagement and opinions about it.

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Challenge proposed by CAROLINE CORBAL

How to involve students in the governance of their school / university ?

Group names: Caroline Corbal (Democracy OS_FR),  Edgar Ornelas, Anoop Bal, Sébastien Lemoine, Tristan Mattei, Xianrui Ming

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Challenge proposed by JEAN MASSIET

How to make political debates less annoying and more transparent ?

DESCRIPTION Accropolis is a Youtube channel offering interacting livestreams of French parliamentary sessions.

CHALLENGE how to make the streams and politics in general more engaging to young people (15+) who are not interested in politics?

PROBLEM Once people click on their first video, they are engaged. However, it's difficult to make them click the first time.

CONCRETE SCENARIO Make videos more engaging and "Youtube"-like (change the thumbnail, maybe short videos of replays of best moments) ; encourage viewer participation (mini-contests with prizes for best question asked...) ; live Q&A ; organize physical meets in schools

IMPACT Way to measure impact: Youtube statistics