the network at the heart of democracy
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Today's network, the internet, has already shown itself to be the agent of great change. In this talk I'm going to look at some of the new ways politics is coming to ordinary people and some of the incredible opportunities for the future. We have the potential to re-imagine the very core of our democratic system - but how can we do this without leaving people behind?TRANSCRIPT
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The network at the heart of democracy
Matthew LandauerOpenAustralia Foundation
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Implementation of Democracy
The Past
The Future
The Present
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“Form of government in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free elections...”
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/157129/democracy
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1. The Past
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Stagecoach
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How do you run a country with problems
like that?
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Representation
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Our system of democracy
is a mirror of the time in which it was created
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2. The Future
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The last 250 years
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The last 250 years
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What kind of democracy is possible with these
new technologies?
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Representative democracy but not based
on physical area
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Direct democracy
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Proxy voting
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Warning
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Is the Internet the same as two people talking to
each other?
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How do we get there?
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Experiment
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Transparency and information
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3. The Present
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OpenAustralia.org is a non-partisan website run by a group of volunteers which aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their representatives in Parliament.
What is OpenAustralia?
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OpenAustralia Foundation
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Non partisan
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OpenAustralia.org
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Near Future
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So many possibilities
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Voting
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Committees
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Bills
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States & Territories
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Video
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Contacting politicians
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Get involved
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Join the Google Group openaustralia-dev
Follow @openaustralia on twitter
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Go to software.openaustralia.org
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Join one of the upcoming Hackfests
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Make something for OpenAustralia.org
orBuild something newusing the data / API
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Photo Credits
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Questions