Modena: a city where the attention to development issues is a matter of “common ground” – Fabio Poggi

Posted by Wilma Massucco on October 19, 2010 under Interviews, Video | Be the First to Comment

Fabio Poggi, Councillor for International Cooperation in Modena (Italy), talks about the experience of his city. Modena might be considered as a good example of the way how to manage human resources working for International Cooperation projects, as a lot of initiatives have been going on, inside this Municipality, related to this topic. See for example the presence in the town of Councillorship for International Cooperation, an Office for International Cooperation, a Course for Volunteers of International Cooperation, a specific Fund for International Cooperation, a Centre of Universities dedicated to International Cooperation, a magazine for International Cooperation, many Associations and schools involved in International Cooperation.

What’s the reason for so many initiatives present in this Municipality? Read more of this article »

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Participative Democracy and role of government, local institutions, common people – Umberto Allegretti

Posted by Wilma Massucco on October 12, 2010 under Interviews, Video | Be the First to Comment

Recently we’ve been hearing about a new adjective sideways the word democracy, and it is participative.

In these last ten years the Representative Democracy highlighted its structural lacks, as it has been used from one side to exercise a very abitrary political power, and on the other side to justify the indifference of common people towards the social and administrative life. As consequence there’s the need nowadays of a new approach about the way how to interact with the municipal territory and with people and institutions there present, and that’s called Participative Democracy. But what does it mean to participate to Democracy? And what’s the role of government, local institutions and common people in this directions? Read more of this article »

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