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Webcitizen is an innovative company that stimulates civic engagement and brings citizens closer together and to their governments and the private sector. We focus on the use of digital technology to create channels of participation, bringing more transparency, accessibility and democracy to public and private administration, promoting a collaborative dialogue, a meaningful sense of community and in a final analisis, helping to create a better world.

Aproximando cidadãos

Webcitizen produces engagement

We nourish communities.
We provide the seed for
transformation.

Webcitizen acts in three ways:

Content

There’s no point in creating nice-looking websites without also having in-depth reporting by experienced journalists.

Events

We develop concepts for meetings, manage content, and offer coaching to create unforgettable experiences.

Applications

Having the right tool is an essential prerequisite for the community to find itself and change the world.

content

Quality content to show that climate change is already affecting our lives

If we learn how to deal with climatic changes, they need not be a tragedy. To mobilize Brazil, we created a site full of varied content for the British Embassy and for the Estadão newspaper - photos, videos, animation, graphics, reports, articles and interviews. Winner of the Journalists and Co. HSBC Press and Sustainability Prizes

Open

content

The Minas Gerais citizens’ blog, a public service of the state government.

For a government today, providing information is as important as providing water or light. This is not propaganda; it is service.

events

The country’s first TED: a transformational meeting of 1,000 people. There will be another in 2011

Webcitizen handled the design, implementation, and the invitation and selection of participants, both speakers and attendees, of the first TED conference held in Brazil, and it is now a biannual event. One of the four most successful TEDx in the world in 2009.

events

A TED in the heart of the forest, bringing together the world's most inspiring ideas.

A unique and transformational conference, classified by many guests and speakers as "the best event I’ve ever attended in my life." It is also biannual.

applications

An attractive and entertaining site that shows the work of the National Congress.

Invited to speak in
Washington in May 2010

Engaging Citizens in Development Management and Public Governance Invited by the UN to coordinate a panel discussion on civic engagement. Barcelona in June 2010

A simple, attractive and entertaining site to try to transform the black box of the National Congress into a glass house. Chosen by Época magazine as one of the finalists in the 2010 Generosity Prize.

applications

We have created a platform calling all citizens to construct together the future of the State of Minas Gerais

In partnership with the Government, we launched ten challenges to be discussed without hierarchy, in a democratic and collaborative way, so that every citizen, enterprise, NGO, institutions etc. had the opportunity to create goals and participate in reaching solutions.

Press

Veja.com, Augusto Nunes interview

Abrir

Program “Espaço Aberto” from Globonews

Abrir

Presentation Gov2.0, André Blas.

Abrir

Launching of Votenaweb

Abrir

Article published in the Época magazine (july,2010)

Article published in the  Brasil Econômico journal (july, 2010)

Article published in the Folha de S. Paulo journal (june, 2010)

Article published in the LeMonde Diplomatic journal (october, 2010)

Article published in the LeMonde Diplomatic journal (january, 2010)

Article published in the Estado de Minas journal (july, 2010)

Article published in the Estado de S. Paulo journal (march, 2010)

Matéria publicada na Revista Super Interessante (dezembro 2009)

Article published in the Galileu magazine  (october, 2010)

Article published in the Planeta Sustentável website (june, 2010)

Article published in the Folha.com website (june, 2010)

Following the UN’s suggestion, Webcitizen is opening Foundation Webcitizen.
 Its goal is to develop web-citizenship and civic engagement projects to save the credibility of
Brazil's political system.

We are looking for companies that can support us in this cause.

Thanks!

September 9th, 2009

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The first day

Phew. My head is spinning due to so much information. (It could be maybe because of the wine they gave me at the reception offered by Google at the late afternoon.)

It was a busy day here in Washington. It has started at 8 o’clock in the morning and just finish now, after midnight – I wrote it inside the subway, going to the house where I’m lodged. Was the first day of the Gov 2.0 Summit conference, this is an event to discuss ways to change the world through technology.

Today was the “Expo Showcase” – short presentations of innovative small projects from the entire world, 25 projects in total. A city, it has invited the population to discuss in a website, the municipal budget. A state, it has created virtual communication channels. Security agencies that are changing paper sheet reports for wikis. The environmental agency, it has developed a site in which is possible to find the ecological risks in your neighborhood. The transport company which uses twitter to be closer to its users. A lot of entrepreneurs are getting incomprehensible public data and turning it into outstanding sites. We finish the night having dinner with two of the winners of the projects – an attempt to use Second Life to decrease the distance between West and East.

Suddenly, at the end of the day, what looked like a bunch of isolated initiatives is turning in my mind into a huge movement. A movement that is just beginning – for more transparency, for more participation, for more openness, for a government that trusts in the population and avails data for each person to decide what is best for them.

It was a busy day, as I said – and it was only the first of three. But was enough to notice that we’ll back from Washington different than we were when we first arrived here. And I’m looking forward to see this wave of changing bursts on Brazilian shores.

Denis Russo Burgierman

4 Responses to “The first day”

Obrigado por compartilhar. Continuo acompanhando o blog e a cobertura pelo twitter. Abraços, Guilherme

Guilherme Araujo September 9, 2009 at 10:04:15 AM
Maravilhoso esse evento. Obrigado Leonardo por me alertar e convidar para acompanhá-lo. Parabéns!

Paulo Araújo September 9, 2009 at 05:07:10 PM
É isso aí, Denis.
Precisamos partilhar a nossa experiência de descobertas dos recursos e possibilidades de tornar a vida virtual mais próxima do real, transformando a vida dos brasileiros e oportunizando uma gestão mais participativa na administração pública.

Sempre estarei aqui para saber das boas idéias que tens.

Abraços

Bruno Resende Ramos September 10, 2009 at 01:04:54 PM
Heya are using Wordpress for your site platform? I’m new to the blog world but I’m trying to get started and set up my own. Do you require any coding expertise to make your own blog? Any help would be really appreciated!

Katolicki May 19, 2011 at 01:43:09 AM

A Campus Party contará com palestra de Kul Wadhwa, Dave Haynes e Charles Lenchner: http://t.co/5tBaceHv # 2012/02/07

@Jeffsoffer Jefferson, não conseguimos viabilizar outras edições da Revista Gotas. Adoraríamos dar continuidade a ela, quem sabe um dia. # 2012/02/07

Estão dizendo por aí que somos otimistas políticos. @Barreto12 confirma: http://t.co/K8UPbFEC # 2012/01/30

A Webcitizen procura estudante de Direito para vaga de estágio no Votenaweb. Enviar currículo para: vagas@webcitizen.com.br # 2012/01/25

Entenda o que é o Projeto de Lei SOPA e a ameaça que ele traz para o compartilhamento do conhecimento: http://t.co/wsPIHvZD # 2012/01/18

Webcitizen produces engagement

Webcitizen acts in three ways:

Content

Events

Applications

Press

Thanks!

The first day

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