Global Citizen is New Europe's attempt at creating a portal about globalisation and democracy. If the project succeeds, the portal will be able to serve as an "online public servant" for progressive politicians, grassroots and business people all over the world. The goal is that this target group from the year 2013 will be able to save 1 million working hours yearly, by using this medium.

One of the fundamental elements in the portal is an outline that will enable the handling of vast quatities of information while still maintaining a managable overview. A beta version of the portal has been launched with primary focus on climate and environment.

We have also started the so-called community-phase. The goal here is to organise the actors that will prepare the actual content. The project has so far obtained financial support from the European Commission, The Social Democrats, Danish Metal and Nævnet vedr. EU-oplysning (the EU board)

The outline for Global Citizen is as follows:

1. Globalisation
2. Political tools
3. Political actors

The three headlines can be expanded into a number of subtopics which in some cases go down as far as level 5 or 6. All in all the portal contains more than 600 subtopics. This makes it even more important to establish contacts to the editors that will create the content in the many subtopics.

Another important trademark of this portal is that it will honour the Internet's creed of communication through short texts, images, sounds and animations. We are all drowning in information. This makes it even more important to develop a tool that can provide us with the information necessary, in the daily work for a globalisation with a human face.

A third significant trademark is that the portal has to operate in the space between science, politics and mediation. The dense science already exists. So much so, that few of us have the time to read it all. The amount of breaking news is also abundant. We are exposed to it every day, around the clock.

What is missing, is the factual and brief information that lies in between dense science and breaking news. In short, the information that constitutes the necessary facts in the discussion regarding globalisation with a human face.