On 2/2/22 12:53 PM, Bonface M. K wrote:

Benson Muite via KICTANet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> anaandika:

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FOSDEM'22 is an online conference this coming weekend. Some talks that may be interesting to listers are:

The public code devroom: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/public_code/ includes a talk on an open source governance platform, https://decidim.org/ which is used by the city of Barcelona. A similar platform https://consulproject.org/en originally developed for Madrid is also used in Mogadishu.'

The legal and policies devroom https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ includes a talk on the proposed European Digital markets act. A related talk on Digital sovereignty https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/misc_europe/

The community devroom includes a talk on OpenScienceKE: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/community_open_science/

This one will be interesting too: <https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/declarative_and_minimalistic_computing/>

Decidim seems to be used to increase citizen participation. In France, it is used for petitions to the National Assembly: https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/ Maybe this would be useful here as well, as a complement to "meet the people tours". In Barcelona, it is used for participatory budgeting. Maybe this is something that local city councils could use. Would listers be willing to try out such platforms? As an example, one could cost effectively collect information on what features should be in eCitizen. These can be locally hosted and allow growing the community of high integrity IT professionals with data control expertise.