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Overview Assumptions Objectives Venue Actors Steering Committee Our topics Event structure and processes Event dissemination and harvest Event experience Save the dates! Opportunities for organizations and sponsors Founding story Contact info

1.OVERVIEW What would Democracy look like if we modelled it into a way of collective living and governance in the new era? IDEA|TOPOS is bringing together researchers, policy-makers, private sector representatives and civil society activists in order to explore and develop new theory and best practices that will rise up to the challenges of Governance today.

The 4-day programme includes presentations of academic papers and social projects, open discussions using participatory methods, thematic workshops, information and networking opportunities as well as parallel cultural events and thematic tours of Athens. During IDEA|TOPOS 2015 expect to be faced with systemic societal challenges. Challenges which require way more than new information and technology. Challenges which call us to create new processes and communities of practice which will act in innovative ways at all levels: from the individual to the institutional, from the local to the national and the international. We invite seekers, doers and disrupters to join an unConference experience of mutual learning, networking, co-creation and action, moving forward to the basics.

2.ASSUMPTIONS Citizens hold the solutions.   

What if stimulate and facilitate participation, openness and collaboration at every level of decision making? What if we allow the diversity connecting diverse stakeholders and catalyze cross-sector collaboration? What if we experiment with novel social and digital technologies and build bridges between the digital and physical spheres?

Solutions will arise in fissures between silos of knowledge and expertise or other arbitrary boundaries.

Engagement

Cooperation

Connectivity

Openness

3.OBJECTIVES 

ADVANCE the state of the art of Open, Participatory, Collaborative Governance

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NETWORK people and facilitate the creation of cross-sector synergies BREAKING DOWN the traditional barriers that divide the communities (academic, research, social) from each other

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CREATE awareness, enthusiasm and the expectation to revitalize Democracy and develop a new Epicenter around Athens

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CATALYZE experiments, new projects, initiatives and actions for Democracy, in Greece and beyond

Caller

Host

Connector

Enabler

4.VENUE

Our host is Technopolis, a 100.000 sq.m venue located at the old gas factory of Athens in Gazi area, next to the historical centre. It constitutes one of the most interesting industrial sights of Europe and it used to host a true independent community featuring a foundry, machineries, a garage, a restaurant, a barber shop, a community clinic, and other elements of a well-organized local economy. Technopolis was fully renovated by the City of Athens in 1999 and today it is used as an industrial park and cultural centre. It offers flexible and multi conference spaces that facilitate participation and collaboration and at the same time, direct connections to Athens’ cultural and historical sights.

Our meeting point is Athens, the place that hosted the birth to Democracy and developed a language in which some concepts remain interconnected for centuries: City . Citizen . Politics . Culture . State [Πόλη . Πολίτης . Πολιτική . Πολιτισμός . Πολιτεία] Lying on the verge between chaos and rebirth, Athens offers citizens of the world a unique stimulating context for meaningful conversations on the present and future of Democracy.

Organizers

City of Athens

Co-Organizers

Technical support

Partners

6.STEERING COMMITTEE Conference Steering Committee  Carlos E. Jimenez, Global Chair, IEEE Computer Society e-Government STC  Nikolaos Mavridis, Ass. Professor of Research, NYU and Researcher, NCSR Demokritos Conference Co-Chairs • Meimaris Michalis, Professor of New Technologies in Media, Communication and Education of the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Member of the Managing Board of UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education • Saleem Zougbi, Vice-Chair of the IEEE TMC, Change Management expert in PWC, Advisor in United Nations  Dory Scaltsas, Professor of Ancient Philosophy , Philosophy Department, University of Edinburg, UK  Francisco Falcone, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Navarra, Spain

Communications Chair  Elina Makri, Journalist  Eleni-Reveka Staiou, Researcher, Media Department, University of Athens, Greece Awards Chair  Amalia Zepou, Deputy Mayor of Athens, Responsible for civil society Organization Chair  Evika Karamagioli, Scientific coordination, University of Athens  Mary Karatza, Strategic Designer –Community Development Place Identity  Stephania Xydia, Cultural Manager – Production Manager Place Identity  Pavlos Georgiadis, Ethnobiologist & EcoGastronomist Trend Watcher  Nikos Sarris, Head of Operations, ATC Innovation Lab  Maria Scordialos, Participatory Leadership Trainer, Living Wholeness Institute  Odysseas Velentzas, Participatory Leadership Trainer – Process Makers  Vicki Kolovou, Sponsorships Strategy  Gianna Karmali, Graphic Designer – Communication Design  Mirto Arvaniti, Graphic Designer – Communication Design Publications Chair  Luis Terán, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Participants Co-Chair  Ilia Katratzi, Place Identity

6.STEERING COMMITTEE Technical Program Committee                       

Achilles Kameas, Ass Professor, School of Science and Technology, Hellenic Open University, Greece Alex Afouxenidis, Scientific Associate, National Center for social research, Athens, Greece Alfonso Molina, Professor of Technology Strategies at the University of Edinburg, Scientific Director Fondazione Mondo Digitale Andreas Veglis, Professor, Media Department, University of Thesaloniki, Greece Argyro Karanasiou, Lecturer ln Law For Business, Bournemouth University, UK Christos Frangonikolopoulos, Ass Professor, Media Department, University of Thesaloniki, Greece Dimitris Gritzalis, Professor of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Diomidis D. Spinellis, Professor , Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business, and director of the Information Systems Technology Laboratory (ISTLab) and the lab’s Software Engineering and Security (SENSE) group, Athens, Greece George Karagiannidis, Professor, Department of Digital Communications Systems, University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters, Greece George Giannakopoulos, Researcher, NCSR “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece George Karamanolis, Associate in Informatics & Digital Strategy at Information Society and the Knowledge-based Economy Group of National Technical University of Athens, Greece Ioannis Mavridis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Applied Informatics , Univ. of Macedonia, Greece Jochen Spangenberg, Lecturer in FU Berlin, Germany Kiriakos Pierrakis, Researcher, Oxford University, UK Leonidas Anthopoulos, Assistant Professor , Department of Business and Economics, TEI of Larissa, Greece Lilian Mitrou, Associate Professor, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean,Greece Nikolaos Smyrnaios, Lecturer University of Toulouse, France Rob van Kranenburg, Founder of the Internet of Things Council, Netherlands Socratis Katsikas, Professor of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece Stephanie Wojcik, Ass. Professor in Political Communication, University of Paris 12, France Thodoros Karounos, Greek Free / Open Source Software Society (GFOSS), Athens, Greece Thodoros Tsiftsis, Assistant Professor , Department of Electrical Engineering, TEI Lamias, Greece Vagelis Karkaletsis, Research Director at NCSR “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece

7.OUR TOPICS T1) Social Media, Data & Opinion Mining , BigData T2) Data driven and crowdsourcing Journalism for Public Awareness T3) Interoperability, SmartGov and E-Gov Architectures T4) Placemaking and Participatory Urban Design Τ5) Open and Smart Cities Governance T6) Participatory design & leadership methods Τ7) Social innovation & systemic change T8) Open cultural heritage and place branding T9) Epistemic Democracy and Collective Intelligence, Collaborative Systems T10) Security, Privacy and Ethics T11) Participatory constitutional design theory and practice T12) Nation branding strategies – local communities strengthening and place development

8.EVENT STRUCTURE AND PROCESSES Plenary & Parallel Sessions: a) b) c) d)

Lectures: Academic presentations Story telling & Inspirational Practitioners: Practice Stories, Case Studies, etc. Workshops: Open Space Inquiry & World Cafe Network Hub + poster exhibitions, stands, etc.

9.DISSEMINATION & HARVEST          

Citizens’ Info Point in a central square Publication of Proceedings Bilingual website News & Social media feed Live streaming Documentary film Press Office Web Radio Graphic Facilitation / Infographics Creative clustering and display of ideas and proposals

10.EVENT EXPERIENCE      

Ice-breaking games and crosspollination activities Networking hub Thematic tours – on the footsteps of Democracy Projections Urban installations Greek, collective kitchen

11.SAVE THE DATES! •

March 26st - 29st 2015

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Registrations open: December 1st – early bird tickets until January 15th 2015 Call for Practitioners: deadline January 15th 2015 Call for Papers: deadline January 15th 2015 Call for Satellite Events: deadline January 15th 2015 (Workshops / Projections / Field trips / Events / Exhibits) Acceptance notification: February 15th 2015 Camera ready submissions: March 10th 2015 Registrations close: never!

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12.OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMPANIES AND ORGANIZATIONS We need more than sponsors We need partners Οur supporters become partners of the conference contributing to its production and dissemination costs (ask about production needs and budget) As partners, we shape the promotion plan of each company together, focusing on customer relations, visibility and efficiency. Let’s attempt to stand outside the box and support the future of Democracy with creativity and innovation!

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13.FOUNDING STORY

The 1st IDEA|TOPOS conference was held in Volos, Greece in 2012. The citizens’ initiative Imagine The City invited the University of Thessaly (Dpt of Planning and Regional Development) to open the scientific discussion and an open dialogue with Civil Society on issues related to strategic place management and place identity. The successful 3-day conference attracted 7 Universities and over 400 participants, while thousands of citizens engaged in the 10 parallel events in the city. It became clear that conference objectives for knowledge creation, dissemination and citizens’ participation demanded new tools and processes. The experience of the 1st IDEATOPOS conference in 2012 and the friction with the needs and challenges of society in Greece and beyond, led us to examine fundamental issues. Focusing on the decision- and policy-making processes that shape our cities and define our lives, active stakeholders from the social and scientific spheres are initiating the design of the 2nd IDEA|TOPOS conference in 2015, provoking networking and collaboration between those who stand at the edge of technology and those who explore innovation in Politics, seeking a ‘next generation’ Democracy. The conference is being developed in parallel with other social projects in Greece, in the context of “POLITEIA 2.0: Democracy reborn”, a platform for political innovation which in 2012 won the Audience Award at the European Investment Bank Social Innovation Tournament. Amongst others, the platform fosters action research for the design of a new democratic constitution for Greece through prototype citizens’ engagement processes. See www.ideatopos.org/2012

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