Category: Politics

CO-DECIDING WITH CITIZENS: TOWARDS DIGITAL DEMOCRACY AT EU LEVEL

Elisa Bruno, EU Policies and Outreach Manager, ECAS

A new Deliberative-Collaborative eDemocracy model is emerging worldwide. This model can ensure high quality policy-making by involving citizens directly in the policy process through the use of Web 2.0 facilities to enhance and manage large-scale information in a collaborative process. As a part of this model, crowdsourcing for policy-making has been used at national and local levels to gather information and knowledge from an undefined crowd using ICT and the Internet. Thanks to crowdsourcing, policy-makers co-legislate with citizens, who then become part of the political process in-between elections.

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“One very simple, but radical, idea: to democratise Europe.” An interview with Yanis Varoufakis

I followed my own thinking through to the extent that I can, logically, and reached the conclusion that a pan-European movement is the only solution. … why this should be a movement, and not a party and not an elite.

10 questions for Jon Huntsman, Joe Lieberman

HARWOOD: What's wrong with American politics?

HUNTSMAN: I think professional politicians have taken over. They've professionalized what used to be a pursuit in public service…

LIEBERMAN: … it got more and more partisan, so my last two years were the most partisan, most rigid, and therefore the least productive. We didn't get anything done.

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Could We Open Source Democracy?

Pia Mancini wants to upgrade democracy with the open source mobile platform Democracy OS. It aims to bring citizens inside the legislative process, and to get politicians to actively listen to what they say.

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