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Die Untoten Life Science & Pulp Fiction

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:28:43 +0000

In May 2011, Handshake was adopted for the festival “Die Untoten LIFE SCIENCES & PULP FICTION”. The three-day conference brought together 80 artists and scientists who presented and discussed projects, films, artworks about the vulnerable states between life and death.

(www.untote-orte.de)

Interview government 2.0 (german)

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:34:49 +0000

German blog »government« 2.0 is engaged at the very front in the issues of openness and transparency in todays administrations. Recently the blog published an interview with Stefan Göllner about »Handshake« and the general use of online tools for enhancing participation.

Service

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:07:52 +0000

Software development
Act local conducts software development with a focus on user centred design methodologies. Our main goal is to support active people on-site with useful online tools. Our expertise covers all phases of development:

Envisioning
Planning
Design and development
Testing
Delivery and support

Urban interventions
the term describes activities that are needed to involve people at a certain location in an internet driven evaluation process. Being present and collaborating with local partners are just two of the premises for a successful act-local project. Read more

whitepaper (german version)

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:27:23 +0000

New Theme called “merge”

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:16:36 +0000

We developed a new theme called “merge”. It has a nice grey look and will be
available soon. As handshake is based on MVC the views are themebased and
easy to change with a different look and feel.

blog

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:39:20 +0000

A blog will be available soon. We are going to post interresting topics about eparticipation.

Government 2.0

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:31:40 +0000

Christian Kramer will be in Berlin at the government 2.0 camp. To gain an insight into the software “handshake” please contact him.

28.08.2009, 27.08.2009
Hertie School of Governance, Quartier 110, Friedrichstr. 180, 10117 Berlin

Act-Local: Urban Interventions

Stefan — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:47:49 +0000

The activities presented on this page give an insight in how we achieved the active collaboration of the citizens of cologne when Unortkataster was introduced to the public. With this examples we want to underline our conviction that using software for raising a public participation process will only be successful, if the operators initiate a vivid communication process to proove their credibility. Collaboration with suitable local partners therefore serves as the main key.

Here you can find a number of video documentations about our activities to involve people in cologne in the discussions on Unortkataster.

»Lokale Problemzonen« – in Vitako magazine

Stefan — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:19:18 +0000

In the second release 2009 »Vitako« – the magazine of german communal IT-service providers, published an article about Unortkataster-koln. They also reported about the planned implementation of Handshake in Munich, prepared with local activists group Greencity.

Read article

»Unortkataster office« at Plan08

Stefan — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:57:23 +0000

Architecture and city planning event Plan08 gave the frame for the public presentation of Unortkataster. The research team temporarily opened an office in the city center in order to personally introduce the platform to the cologne citizens. A second Unortkataster map was created as a huge wall of clipboards, each containing a part of the complete cologne map. Each office visitor was asked to mark his favourite »Unort« on the wall or in the Internet. The place became a meeting room for citizens, architects, city planners and politics. Lord Major Fritz Schramma dedicated the platform to the city and marked made his own contribution. After a week about 100 plazes were marked in the office and a broad discourse about the platform was established.

Thanks to Natalia Göllner for supporting the design of Unortkataster office.