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This chapter describes an eParticipation model, designed to be especially appropriate to young people and complex topics: distributed discussion. It draws on the experiences of the HUWY project, which piloted a distributed discussion model, in four countries, to assess how this supported young people’s engagement. The pilot revealed that young people valued structured and well-supported discussions, particularly well-facilitated offline discussions. Integrating online and offline, national and international elements are the advantages and challenges of this model. This chapter aims to give an overview of the theoretical basis, process and impacts of the model and to provide recommendations for future development and use.
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http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/children-go-online/UKCGOfinalReport.pdf. Accessed 30 June 2011.
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Full reports available at http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/c/publications/grantid/13363192. Accessed 30 June 2011.
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HUWY was co-funded by the European Commission and the project partners, under the eParticipation Preparatory Action. The involvement of the Estonian partners was supported by Estonian Target Financing measure SF0180017s07 ‘Estonia as an Emerging Information and Consumer Society: Social Sustainability and Quality of Life’.
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Taylor-Smith, E., Kimpeler, S., Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P. (2012). Distributed Discussion: An Integrated eParticipation Model for Engaging Young People in Technology Policy. In: Charalabidis, Y., Koussouris, S. (eds) Empowering Open and Collaborative Governance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27219-6_10
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