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<BODY style="FONT: 10pt Segoe UI; MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px"><BR>we would like to invite you to the first international conference on <BR>“Online participation on the local level” which is held from 13 to 15 <BR>December 2017 in Düsseldorf/Germany. The conference brings together an <BR>international group of researchers from different disciplines to provide <BR>a variety of perspectives on local online participation. [...] Further <BR>information is available at <A href="https://diid.hhu.de/opll-conference/">https://diid.hhu.de/opll-conference/</A><BR><BR>The conference is jointly organized by the Düsseldorf Institute for <BR>Internet and Democracy (DIID) and the NRW Fortschrittskolleg Online <BR>Participation both at the University of Düsseldorf.<BR><BR>Participants can register for the conference at no charge until the 30th <BR>November via email: diid@hhu.de.<BR><BR>Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you have further <BR>questions. Also feel free to forward our invitation to others who might <BR>be interested. Thank you very much!</BODY></HTML>