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
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