<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi!<div>Commons4EU project endorses the Battle of the Mesh v6!</div><div>We have published the announcement in our project page (<a href="http://commonsforeurope.net/">homepage</a> and <a href="http://commonsforeurope.net/category/events/">blog</a>) and will now do some tweets on our @commons4europe account.</div><div><br></div><div>I attach the logo of Commons4EU and a short explanation of the project.</div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 24); font-size: 11px; ">Cities face similar problems in terms of diminishing resources, increasing demands of citizens and a need for transformation towards Smart Cities.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 24); font-size: 11px; "><span style="color: #275c7d">Commons4EU </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 24); font-size: 11px; ">will allow the collaboration among cities, civic innovators, volunteers and SMEs, pushing towards the transformation of the cities from solution providers to ecosystem managers and to government 2.0</span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(26, 26, 24); "><span style="color: #275c7d">Commons4EU</span>, is following the lead of Code for America in the application layer, starting the Code for Europe initiative, but at the same time it takes this one step further in the infrastructure field via the use of the Bottom-up Broadband Initiative.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(26, 26, 24); ">It advocates for an approach aimed at promoting openness, multidisciplinarity and recombination while focusing in the key aspect of connecting citizens with their constituencies either in terms of participation or reducing administrative burden by using Information Technologies.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; ">"</span></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(26, 26, 24); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(26, 26, 24); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; ">Thanks!</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(26, 26, 24); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; ">Anna</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div><div><img id="21e00ef6-333b-4b48-b1a0-3e3f54a2d21b" height="46" width="147.012" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:725E2878-302C-4078-B822-BD312EC0C53F"></div><div>
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