SDDP Reinventing Democracy - Challenges (MENA Initiative)

SDDP Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era (UNDEF) Report Report Title Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era (UNDEF) Report Triggering Question What are key shortcomings of our current systems of governance that could be improved through technology Project Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era (UNDEF) Author(s) Yiannis Laouris Kevin Dye Andreas Andreou Eleni Philippou Total Duration 800 person hrs Statistics Participants= 20 Number of ideas= 69 Number of Clusters=16 Number of Ideas with one or more votes=27 Ideas on MAP R=17 Spreadthink=34.4% Dates May 15-19, 2017 Link (insert initiative report link)

Executive Summary

This paper reports the results of the second of a series of workshops organized by Future Worlds Center under the auspices of UNDEF. The dialogue was implemented in the context of the Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era (UNDEF) project. The purpose of this project was to bring together young people from all aroud the world in an attempt to take apart and reconstruct the concept of democracy. The workshop was organized using the structured dialogic design process (SDDP) approach within the context of a rich web-based communication environment. This Co-Laboratoty was organized using the Structured Democratic Dialogue Process (SDDP) approach within the context of a rich web-based communication environment. It is organized by the Middle East and Northern African Initiative.

The Triggering Question (TQ) was
What are key shortcomings of our current systems of governance that could be improved through technology?
In response to the TQ, the 20 participants came up with 69 Actions, which were categorized in 16 clusters. Following the voting process, 27 ideas received one or more votes and 17 were structured to create the influence MAP shown below.

Influence tree from the Characteristics SDDP of the Reinventing Democracy workshop for TQ

According to the participants of this workshop, the ideas that appear to be the most influential were:

• Challenge 34: Deficiency in the process of raising awareness around the rights of citizens
  
• Challenge 30: Absence of meritocracy in governmental institutions
  
• Challenge 18: Corruption
  
• Challenge 45: Lack of women's engagement in politics
  

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Participants

Name	Country
Takwa Makhlouf	Tunisia
Ano Surmava	Georgia
Ethan Shafir	Israel
Houda Halwani	Lebanon
Omar El​menofy	Bahrain
Eslam Elhossieny	Eygpt
Fatma Younis	Egypt
Ahmed Elsayed	Lebanon
Hazim Musleh	Palestine
Karim Chalhoub	Lebanon
Ayman Abu Aisheh	Palestine
Hassan Mahareeq	Palestine
Abedalrahman ALzghoul	Jordan
Manal Ibrahim
Incinur Yilgin	Turkey
Bengisu Colak	Turkey
Rana Makki
Hoda Touma	Lebanon
Deloris Saad	Lebanon
Ivi Solomou	Cyprus

Final Report

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