reboot 11 talk on platforms for participatory democracy
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Platforms for Participapatory
DemocracyCAMP TOUCH THIS
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Future
• Facebook• RSS• More data• Parties• Promises• Translations• Laws as wikis• Tagging (geo too)• Other Parliaments? Municipalities?
Right…
Case in point
Expenses
More crowdsourcing
Salaries
Hold ‘em to it!
OpenCongress
NY Senate
What can you do?
• Insist on data!(...and no .pdf or .doc)– Voting records– Laws– Speeches
• Scrape the blighters!• Build a site– OpenCongress (RoR) and
TheyWorkForYou (PHP) are open source
What features?
• Transparency– Voting– RSS/notifications– Stats– Translation– Expenses– Declared interests
• Participation– Comments– Votes– Facebook– Tagging
Where will this take us?
• Laws as wikis• Citizen drafted laws• Live commenting• Going analog–Mark Kuznicki
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