Worldwide Movement for Direct Democracy

There is an effort to try to set up a formal Worldwide Movement for Direct Democracy.
It was initiated at the 1st ever International Conference on Direct Democracy.
The 2nd conference was held in June 2000 in Greece.
This process is being discussed in the quaterly Worldwide Direct Democracy Newsletter.
Subscription is US$10.00/year, and can be ordered from
Dr. Jiri Polak, jiri.polak@swipnet.se (more details here).

 

The "First International Conference on Direct Democracy"

took place August 1998 in Pribram near Prague, Czech Republic. A list of
speakers and their talks given at the conference is pasted below. Taking
a closer look, you will see that the conference was not only about direct
democracy, but also about how to improve representative democracy, about
helping people everywhere govern their own collective affairs, and
about the implications of new communication systems for all of this.

And this was not only an academic conference. The organisers are keen to
promote a world-wide movement for more democracy. By browsing the WWW via
some of the following links, you begin to get the impression that the
global movement which Carsten (of Mehr Demokratie, FRG) calls for is
already just starting to roll...

Next conference proposed: Year 2000, Greece.

CONTACTS

Movement for Direct Democracy MDD, P.O.Box 38, 149 00 Prague 415, Czech Republic
fax: Czech Republic, 2-791 79 69

Jiri Polak Ph.D. jiri.polak@swipnet.se Write to ask for a FULL
REPORT of the 1998 conference (small charge for postage etc.).

ON-LINE FORUM TO FOLLOW UP THE PRIBRAM CONFERENCE
www.auburn.edu/tann/prague/index.htm

MORE PRO-DEMOCRACY LINKS
www.npsnet.com/cdd/
democratie.nu (Belgium)
www.snafu.de/~mjm/init.html

PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE PRIBRAM CONFERENCE

Sabine Haenni-Hildbrand (info@c2d.unige.ch): Research and
Documentation Center on Direct Democracy - University of Geneva

PhD. Milan Valach, Masaryk's University, Faculty of Pedagogics, Poriei 31,
603 00 Brno, Czech Republic: Do we Need Change? - Semi-direct Democracy and
Enterprise Ownership by Employees

Eng. Jaroslav Koci, CSc. Murmanska 9, 1 00 00 Praha 1 0, Czech Republic: A Road to DD

Prof.PhD.Eng. Josef Smajs, CSc (smajs@phil.muni.cz) and PhD.Jiri
Polak (jiri.polak@swipnet.se): The Threatened Culture and the Problem
of Democracy

Michael Efler, (100407.26@compuserve.com): Volksentscheide am
27.Sept. '98 - Mehr Demokratie in Hamburg (periodical); eurotopia - Mai
1991 bis Mai 1992 (periodical); direkte demokratie Argumente *
Informationen * Hintergruende (periodical)

Heiko Dittmer (Heiko_Dittmer@be.ibm.com): Inter-American Development
Bank (Information on Porto Alegre) Democratie participative e Porto Alegre
(newspaper article published in Le Monde Diplomatique, August 1998)

Dr. George L. Kokkas (goal@eexi.gr and geoko@eexi.gr): The
Growing Roots of Democracy in Contemporary Politics; plus Greek National
Report

Prof. Marcus Schmidt (observa@po.ia.dk): Direct Democracy in Denmark

PhD. Pentti Asunmaa (pentti.asunmaa@kuorevesi): Teledemocracy
Application and Implementation of a National ICT Strategy in the
Municipality of Kuorevesi

Auli Keskinen (auli.keskinen@tukkki.fi): Finnish Information Society
(projects and developments)

Lic. Juhani Pekkola (juhani.pekkola@pt2.tempo.mol.fi): Democracy and
Information Systems

PhD. Tomas Ohlin (tomas.ohlin@sh.se): Towards more active citizens -
a Swedish perspective

Mike Gravel (mike.gravel@cogroup.com): Philadelphia II (Draft of a
Proposed Federal Law)

B.Sc. M.Sc. George S.Sagi (sage2509@msn.com): A Theory of
Apolitical Governances

M. Dane Waters (mdanewaters@iandrinstitute.org): Initiative &
Referendum Institute Factsheet

Ron Thomas (ronthom@aol.com): Sustainable Racine - Proud to Call it
home (info folder)

Ned Crosby (jcenter@usinternet.com): Citizens Jury Update (Summer
1998); Citizens Election Forum (August 1998)

Simon Seong-Muk Won (simon@cyberparty.or.kr): Role of Media for
building Citizen-based Participatory Democracy

Minseok Kim (ms2030@cyberparty.or.kr): Electronic Democracy of Korea
in the Eyes of a National Assemblyman

Dr. Lyn Carson (lyn.carson@social.usyd.edu.au): Perspectives on
Community Consultation

PhD. Junichi Takase (takase@nufs.nakanishi.ac.jp): A New Phase in
Japanese Direct Democracy Movements

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Sincerely,
Michael Macpherson

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Dr. Michael Macpherson,
PSAMRA/Integral Studies,
Berlin FRG
tel.: +49 30 262 3768
e-mail: mjm@berlin.snafu.de

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