March 14th 2014, 09:00 – 17:30
Nesta, 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE
More Info: http://dcentproject.eu / @dcentproject

D-CENT is a Europe-wide project creating decentralised and privacy-aware tools and applications for direct democracy and economic empowerment. Together with the citizens and developers, we are creating a decentralised social networking platform for large-scale collaboration and decision-making. Despite the huge potential of online networks to transform democratic decision making or to enable citizens to shape their own economic destiny, today’s Internet has done little to transform current democratic and economic institutions.

On March 14th we will host the D-CENT launch event in London at Nesta and we would like to invite you to attend the event and participate in the working group sessions.

The event will draw a number of high-level policy makers, academics, activists, civic society organisations, and hackers from the field. Together we will dive into new ways of strengthening citizens’ participation and deliberation in the political process presenting already existing digital tools for open democracy, new frameworks for institutional innovation, and alternative economic models based on complementary currencies and digital crypto currencies.

Speakers include: Geoff Mulgan, Nesta; Birgitta Jonsdottir, Pirate Party Iceland; Paul Lenz, My Society; Javier Toret Medina, PartidoX Spain; Jarmo Eskelinen, Forum Virium Helsinki; Bernard Lietaer; Stacy Herbet, co-host of Keiser report on RT; Carlos de Freitas (Ph.D), Instituto Palmas Europe; and Andrea Fumagalli, Unisor and Pavia University.

We hope that you will be able to join us and contribute your views, helping us shaping a Decentralised Digital Ecosystem for citizen engagement and democratic participation.

To view the agenda and to register for this event, please click here