<div dir="ltr">Does the IGC have any ideas to suggest?<div>Deirdre</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">HIBBARD Lee</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Lee.HIBBARD@coe.int">Lee.HIBBARD@coe.int</a>></span><br>Date: 21 April 2015 at 11:47<br>Subject: World Forum for Democracy on "Freedom vs control for a democratic response" (Strasbourg, 18-20 November 2015): <a href="http://www.world-forum-democracy.org">www.world-forum-democracy.org</a><br>To: "<a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a>><br>Cc: WILLERS Rabea <<a href="mailto:Rabea.WILLERS@coe.int">Rabea.WILLERS@coe.int</a>><br><br><br>
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<div><font color="#1F497D">The Council of Europe would like to invite organisations worldwide to express their interest in presenting either an example/initiative or an idea to respond to security threats in a way that preserves the basic principles of democracy
such as freedom of expression, public deliberation, and the privacy of citizens, by answering the questionnaire and sending it to <a href="mailto:forum_democracy@coe.int" target="_blank"><font color="blue"><u>forum_democracy@coe.int</u></font></a> by 15 May 2015. The World
Forum Task Force will select the most interesting and relevant proposals in June 2015.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#1F497D">For the first time, the Forum will not only showcase already existing initiatives, but also innovative, untested ideas to maintain and develop democracy’s basic principles in times of increasing security threats.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#1F497D">The fourth edition of the World Forum for Democracy, to take place on 18-20 November 2015, will focus on the challenges democracies face in addressing security risks without jeopardising freedom and democratic stability. </font></div>
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<div><font color="#1F497D">Initiatives and ideas to be presented and assessed at the forum will roughly fall under the four key categories:</font></div>
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<li>How much control kills democracy?</li><li>Freedom from fear in a diverse society?</li><li>Is learning of democratic culture adequate today?</li><li>Is freedom of expression and information a reality?</li></font>
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<div><font color="#1F497D">One presenter for the selected initiatives/ideas will be invited to Strasbourg to take part in the World Forum. A number of funded places is available. Any public or private organisation is eligible to apply.</font></div>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979</div>
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