1. TWENTEMENT Using the Living Smart Campus as an incubator
for developing the tools for 21st century BLENDED DEMOCRACY
Bas Denters / Maya van den Berg / Pieter-Jan Klok
Paul Havinga / Nirvana Meratnia
Alexander van Deursen
Henk van der Kolk

2. Bornholm: Folkemødet Democratic Festival: four days
Debates on social & political issues
Participants
National and local politicians
Ordinary Danes
Attendance:
(2012) to > (2016)

3. Twentement September 2017 Location: Roombeek Blended democracy
Real time debates
ICT and social media
Two roles UT:
Developing concept “BLENDED DEMOCRACY” and ICT tools
Developing tools and data analytics for monitoring and evaluating the festival
Next five months : preparing for 1st edition

4. Internal partners and support
IGS and CTIT
Public Administration
Communication Sciences (Alexander van Deursen)
OMD (Henk van der Kolk)
Pervasive Systems (Paul Havinga en Nirvana Meratnia)
……..
Next five months:
Building partnerships
securing internal and external support
Support
Organization of meetings
Use of DesignLab facilities (e.g. hackatons)
Using Campus events as test-bed
Publicity in UT and regional / national media
………

5. Tubantia + Regional media, Museums
Enschede
Regio Twente
Tubantia + Regional media, Museums
Province Overijssel
(Sociale Kwaliteit)
Ministerie BZK
VNG
Research funding:
EU Urban Europe
NWO SURF
SIDN-fonds
Next five months:
Secure funding for developing tools
Secure research funding