RD FAQ

About the Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era Initiative

1. Who is the initiator and who is funding this initiative?
   The Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era project is an initiative of a civil society organization based in Cyprus but operating globally called Future Worlds Center. The initiative has been launched under the generic title Reinventing Democracy in 2012 with four smaller projects implemented in Europe with European Commission funding. This global and quite ambitious phase is being funded by the United Nations Democracy Fund.
   
2. What is the aim and goal of this initiative in a few words?
   
   • The key objective is to increase youth participation in democratic governance by empowering young people from across the world to invent and propose new, innovative and concrete actions.
   • About 100 young people (20 per global region) will contribute ideas face-to-face during five Co-Laboratories engaging ICT and structured democratic dialogue methodology.These group of 100 is referred to as Core participants.
   • More than 1000 additional participants, referred to as Shadow Participants, will also contribute their ideas concerning characteristics of innovative new systems of governance and actions designed to achieve progress towards that end using virtual telecommunication technologies such as short video clips published in YouTube™ explaining their suggestions. The management of both the video recording and uploading as well as the written clarification of an idea will be done using a mobile App (or equivalent desktop computer software) called IdeaPrism.
   
   
3. What are the expected outcomes and/or deliverables of this initiative?
   The key outcomes include: One collectively authored e-book published
   1. Manifesto for 21st Century Democracy: “Requirements of a new system of democracy”
   2. Action Plans created and implemented by participants using small grants provided by the project
   However the outcomes are a lot more diverse and rich and are listed in Outcomes and Outputs

   
   

   About this Wiki

4. Is this the only website for this initiative?
   Yes
   
   
5. Why did you choose to use the MediaWiki platform as website space for this initiative?
   
   

   About the Mentorship Program

6. How many mentors serve in the project?
   A total of 60 experts from around the globe; 20 per mentor type.
   
7. How many Mentor Types exist? Each Participant has to choose three mentors, one per category:
   1. Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors
   2. Mentors in Digital Communication Strategy and Policy
   3. Mentors in the Science of Dialogic Design
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About the Project Management Team

9. Who is the overall director of this initiative?
   The Global Director is Yiannis Laouris, President of the Board of Future Worlds Center
10. Who is the overall Coordinator of this initiative?
    The Global Coordinator is Maria Georgiou member of the team of the Global Education Unit of Future Worlds Center who has the contract with the United Nations Democracy Fund.
    
11. Who are the Regional Coordinators of this initiative?
    
    1. American Initiative: xxxxx
    2. European Initiative: xxxxx
    3. Australasia Initiative: xxxxx
    4. African Initiative: xxxxx
    5. Middle Eastern Initiative: xxxxx
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