On nov. 17 local elections for members of the 98 municipality boards were elected in Denmark. Alle citizens aged 18 and above was invited to vote for their favorite candidates in the municipalities and in the regional government.
This year a initiative involving 31 municipalities held a youth election for youths aged 16 to 18. They were invited to vote too using a web-platform. This special  election was only used to indicate the involment if this agegroup, the vote didn’t have any influence on the real elections.
The idea behind the test-election was …

Congratulation to the municipality of Gentofte for receiving the prestigious prize for their eSolutions Genvej (danish for “shorcut”) which gives the citizens an easy way to access data and services from the municipality.
 
Read an extract about Genvej at epractice.eu and you can find a short instructive movie on the gentofte.dk-website.