Centre for Excellence announced; symposia in Budapest and Baltimore this summer

As Kingston Councillor Mary Reid reported on her blog last night:

Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Minister for Local Government, … announced the new beginning. From April the Government will be funding a virtual Centre of Excellence which will nurture the things produced by the National Project and develop them further. We will also be running two International Symposia in the summer…

symposium_logo_small.jpgI'm not yet sure what this might mean for the ReadMyDay project but I have been invited to teach blogging classes for the International e-Participation and Local Democracy Symposium ("Promoting Social Inclusion via e-Participation") that's being held in Budapest and Baltimore.

And if you've been following the weblog of Isobel Harding, lead for the Local edemocracy National Project, you'll see that she's been making the pitch to representatives for several European countries.