Homo Digitalis participates in 2 thematic workshops of the City of Athens OGP Local
On May 18, at Serafio, Homo Digitalis had the great pleasure of taking part in two thematic workshops organized by the City of Athens OGP (Open Government Partnership) Local Working Group. The workshops focused on Universal Accessibility in Physical and Digital Spaces and Transparency, Accountability, and Participatory Budgeting.
Through a shared methodology of gathering proposals, clustering ideas, and voting, under the coordination of Alexandros Melidis, General Director of the Greek Free Open Source Software Society, we had the opportunity to discuss and jointly decide on a series of particularly interesting proposals.
Our organization was represented in the two thematic discussions by Lamprini Gyftokosta and Eleftherios Chelioudakis, respectively.
We warmly thank the members of the Working Group responsible for designing and implementing the action plan for the City of Athens’ participation in OGP Local, for their kind invitation and excellent collaboration — including Ioannis Fytros, Angelos Kaskanis, and Stefanos Loukopoulos.
We want access to essential services to be guaranteed offline too!
In the beginning of June, Homo Digitalis joined a large number of orgsanisations calling the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament to guarantee access to essential services offline!
Public administration, banks and energy suppliers, as well as employers, health providers and more, have moved online, and counters, mail services and phone lines are disappearing. Yet, more than 40% of Europe’s population still lacks basic digital skills, preventing them from accessing certain essential services. There is an urgent need to guarantee multichannel (incl. off-line) access to all essential services.
Yu can sign the related open letter here.
The coordinator of this action is Lire et Écrire, a Belgian based literacy organization. Since 1983, the organization provides free literacy trainings and research on illiteracy and literacy processes.