{"id":2236,"date":"2013-05-22T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2013-06-03T15:52:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:52:22","slug":"point-2-0-kicks-of-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/point-2-0-kicks-of-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"POINT 2.0 conference | Political Accountability and New Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Amira\u201cPolitical accountability and new technologies\u201d (POINT) is the theme of a four-day conference held from Thursday the 23rd to Sunday the 26th of May.at Art House Cinema Kriterion in Sarajevo. The conference will gather various experts in the application of new technologies by civil society.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s conference will host numerous guests from around the world who were involved with some of the most influential projects in the field of advocacy, accountability, and transparency. Special focus has been given to speakers from regions of South-East Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Amira Yahyaoui from Tunisian NGO Al Bawsala will hold a presentation on Tunisia \u2013 Accountability After Revolution. Amira Yahyaoui has been an activist against Ben Ali\u2019s regime as a member of the Tunisian anti-censorship & freedom of speech movement, she has been banned from the country for 5 years.<\/p>\n

POINT 2.0 will also feature a presentation of Morsimeter, an online project for monitoring the fulfillment of election promises of current Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.<\/p>\n

Nele Leosk from Estonia will also join POINT. She is active in utilizing new technologies for governance and democratic processes, including e-democracy and e-participation of the public via online tools and SMS messaging.<\/p>\n

POINT will also host Gunnar Gr\u00edmsson and Robert Bjarnason, pioneers in using new technologies in Iceland. They are also founders of Citizen Foundation of Iceland which is active in developing open source platforms for civic participation. In 2011 they were awarded \u201cgeeks of the year\u201d in Iceland. Iceland is the first country in the world where citizens were able to give proposals for drafting a new constitution via the internet.<\/p>\n

The conference will host numerous civil society organizations from the Balkans that will present the most influential project from BiH, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Albania, including the Istinomjer (Truth-o-meter) project which monitors fulfillment of election promises and evaluates the factuality of statements given by public officials.<\/p>\n

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POINT 2.0 will also host a creative workshop for modeling inflatables by Berlin based activist Artur van Balen. On Saturday 25th of May, a public presentation will take place for all inflatables modeled during the workshops.<\/p>\n

Complete conference program can be viewed on the official web page: point.zastone.ba<\/a>.<\/p>\n

POINT\u00a0conference\u00a0is organized by CA Why not (Za\u0161to ne) from BiH,\u00a0in\u00a0 cooperation with Center for Research on Transparency and Accountability (CRTA)\u00a0from Serbia, Metamorphosis Foundation from Macedonia, Mjaft\u00a0from Albania and\u00a0Center for Democratic Transition (CDT) from Montenegro.<\/p>\n

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