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Open data + education: some obvious synergies

" Generate sales leads Campaign participants are high-conversion leads (potential customers) whom you can follow up with via emails. Receive customer insights Learn about the segments supporting each idea, including information about age, gender, education, occupation, city and interests Erdem Ovacik, Direktor Tine Wedell, Project Manager Cengiz Bayram, Technical Lead We serve clients internationally We are based in Copenhagen, and serve clients in Europe and abroad. Wedecide already support 6 languages. Wedecide platform is a Facebook application, where you ask specific questions to your audience, ans support your question with a video or slideshow.  Users develop ideas together and win points for being part of successful ideas. All of this is integrated with Facebook and Twitter with a slick UI.  Click here to check out the platform. "Using Wedecide, we engaged hundreds of Europeans to debate energy efficiency policies which resulted in dozens of valuable policy ideas. With this innovative method, we greatly improved the collaboration of our audience on policy proposals of the ALDE Party." Didrik de Schaetzen, Communications Director, ALDE Party Read our blog Call us: +45 26 37 29 96 Mail us: erdem [at] wedecide.com CVR: 33268394 "

A comment from the Economist on the ECB game, which is at: http://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/educational/economia/html/index.en.html

In a government bureaucracy, any innovation can take years to come to fruition. But that can change, says Tom Kalil, deputy director for policy for the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. Kalil recently participated in a two-day conference at Wharton titled, "For the Win: Serious Gamification," which looked at the application of gaming techniques in business, education, government and other scenarios. Before the conference, Kalil spoke with Kevin Werbach, a conference organizer and a professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton, about why gamification has become a hot topic at the White House.

Government 3.0: Rethinking Governance and Re-Imagining Democracy for the 21st Century at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU is a semester-long exploration of how to use technology to improve governance. Through conversations with leading technology and policy innovators, in-depth reading and, above all, personal reflection we will teach ourselves more about advances in technology, how those innovations can be applied to making decisions and solving problems and design new experiments that might help advance institutional innovation.

A serious gama to improve economic participation of citizens.

Play to be Mario Draghi, form the ECB web site, and learn economics and politics.

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"An Evidence Hub is designed to help your members add their insights where they'll make the highest impact, and through the use of different visualizations/maps, helps answer questions such as the following: Who in my region is working on this problem? Are there any partnerships between projects in these two areas, on this theme?"