Reboot 11 talk on Platforms for Participatory Democracy

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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