Friday lunchtime lectures: Citizen Finland - crowdsourcing legislation with Aleksi Rossi

7/28/2019 Friday lunchtime lectures: Citizen Finland - crowdsourcing legislation with Aleksi Rossi

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Finland

Land of tens of thousands of lakes


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Finland

Independent since 1917

Young democracy


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Finland

5.4 million inhabitants in

1.4x area of UK


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Finland

Education (PISA 2009) #3

(UK #25)

Corruption #1(UK #17)

Effective multiparty

0%

20%

Kes Kok PS SDP Vih Vas RKP KD

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/46643496.pdf http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/results


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Citizen initiative in Finland

1PASSED 1YEAR

Constitution changed

1st

of March, 2012


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The greatest risk

is the cacophony ofzillions of weak ideas

What will likely happen?

Too many ideasEven good ideas


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Filtering for clarity

Filter the good ideas

Campaign the best ideas


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Open Ministry

Crowdsourcing

lawmaking

Like a ministry

By the peopleFor the people


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Open Ministry

Ideation &

Development Campaigning Lobbying

Platform

Technical Human


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Recent campaigns: Banning Fur

farming


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The Open MinistryOpen ministry

Equal marriage Dismantlealcohol

monopoly

Fur-farmingban

Copyright law

reform

Government

debt ceiling

Energy drink

prohibition for

under 15 years


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The Open MinistryOpen ministry

Equal marriage Dismantlealcohol

monopoly

Fur-farmingban

Copyright law

reform

Government

debt ceiling

Energy drink

prohibition for

under 15 years

From the IDEAS

to DRAFTS

to PROPOSALS

to LAWS


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Ensuring success

Campaign


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Idea 1

This sucks!Idea 2

Could besupported

Idea 3

This is great!

Ideation Campaign Lobbying


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Examples of ideas

Only one official language

Paternity test also a right

of a man

Criminalisation of school

bullying

Open data as a mandatoryconsideration

Over 400 iniative ideasproposed


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Statements of Support

Strongly authenticated electronic

Revolution


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Recent campaigns: Copyright law


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Copyright law reform

Finland darted from

Democratic prehistory to

Modern Internet age

Campaigns getting help

from each other

Equal marriages jump-started

with 100 000 signatures

on the first day

2x the required 50 000

50 000 = 1.7% of voting population


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Technical stuff: Codebase


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Technical stuff: Semsi


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Open Ministry startedcollection of

PAPER FORMSin collaboration with libraries.

To provide easy access forpeople not using internet.

Or not yet accustomed to

e-Democracy.


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We are expanding to municipalities

Open Ministry

Open Council


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We are expanding to other countries

Open Ministry

Open Council

Open Ministry

Slovakia

Open Ministry

Italy


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We are expanding to European level

Open Ministry

Open Council

OpenCommission

Open Ministry

Slovakia

Open Ministry

Italy


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Tools

Social Media

FacebookEmailYoutubeTwitter, G+

Collaborative editingGoogle Docs

Etherpad

Video chatsSkype

Hangout

No Pinterest, IRC-Gallery, Instagram,

Minister of Internal Affairs:


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Politician remindedinitiative law was

made by them

Meme reached301 000 Finns

that is about

every sixthFacebook user

Minister of Internal Affairs:

Is the purpose of the citizen initiative to

allow a shortcut to law-making, really?

Yes, dear politician! Its quite

unfortunate it became as a

surprise to the very parliamentwho approved the law.


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Lessons learned

Fourcampaigns1) Pre-campaign for activists

2) Pre-campaign for public

3) Campaign for public

4) Post-campaign for politicians

Barrier to use CI bashed

Activating people is beneficial


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No need to be

sneaky


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Takes vision

to get aligned


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We havent seen snakesso cant give guidance on that


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We have met a few tigers

They

are

great

allies


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Friday lunchtime lectures: Citizen Finland - crowdsourcing legislation with Aleksi Rossi