{"id":32660,"date":"2020-12-02T11:01:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T08:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/sovet-kotosov-kak-minchane-sozdajut-dialogovye-ploshhadki-mezhdu-gorozhanami-i-mestnoj-vlastju"},"modified":"2020-12-16T11:35:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T08:35:55","slug":"the-kotos-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rada.vision\/en\/the-kotos-council","title":{"rendered":"The KOTOS Council. How Minsk residents create dialogue platforms between the townspeople and the local authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The participants of the KOTOS from Malinovka and the South-West districts believe that it is necessary to start working from their entrance, but bear in mind that, with smart interaction, it is possible to change the country. On the initiative of the active citizens of the city, the KOTOS Initiative Council is being established. The aim of this association is to exchange experience and develop self-governance along the house-yard-district-city-country chain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several active Minsk KOTOSes managed to unite with the help of the <a href=\"http:\/\/telegram.biom.by\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TelegramBiom project<\/a>. TelegramBiom is a large number of Telegram chat groups that are united into a single center. Each chat group is a platform of interaction of the residents of one multistory house of a city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe idea of developing KOTOS in the format \u00abwith Swiss quality and Singaporean trust\u00bb appeared in July 2020\u201d, &#8211;\u00a0 is told by one of the creators of the project TelegramBiom and the representative of <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kotos70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KOTOS-70<\/a> of the Southwest district. &#8211; \u00abLater, in the process of development of this idea, initiative-taking people of different professions began to join the project, but whose goal was to improve their region\u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, with the joint initiatives of the South-West and Malinovka districts, the active members of the KOTOS plan to organize real dialogue platforms, which will be attended on the one hand by the inhabitants of the courtyards, whom the townspeople consider to be the real authority, and on the other by the appointed officials, holders of public office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00abThe only source of State power and the bearer of sovereignty in the Republic of Belarus is the people. This is Article 3 of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus\u00bb, &#8211; proactive citizens emphasize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We continue to monitor the activities of KOTOS in different parts of Belarus and remind you that all instructions and support for the formation of territorial public self-government committees you will find on the site <a href=\"https:\/\/kotos.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kotos.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The participants of the KOTOS from Malinovka and the South-West districts believe that it is necessary to start working from their entrance, but bear in mind that, with smart interaction, it is possible to change the country. On the initiative of the active citizens of the city, the KOTOS Initiative Council is being established. 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