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Democracy Upgrade Gregory Engels g0v.tw summit 2014 Photo: cc by-nc-sa S_K_S

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Presentation from #g0vsummit 2014 in Taipeh In the classical democratic systems a citizen gets a vote to express his will. This happen on a regular basis, typical once every four years. One bit of information (one cross) in four years is not great in terms of bandwidth. In todays world of ever present availability of broadband citizen demand a higher upload rate into political system. The Pirate Parties advocate for an „Democracy Upgrade“, by utilizing new software enhanced processes for citizen involvement. One of such approaches is Liquid Democracy and its software implementation Liquid Feedback. In this talk you will learn about it and other systems in use by the Pirate Parties.

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Democracy Upgrade

Gregory Engels g0v.tw summit 2014Photo: cc by-nc-sa S_K_S

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Gregory Engels

• Pirate

• Founding Co-Chairman Pirate Parties International

• IT-Enterpreneur

• City Council in Offenbach (Germany)

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Pirate Parties International

(PPI)• Founded April

2010 in Brussels

• Pirate Parties from 44 countries

• ~600 Seats worldwide

Source: Piratetimes.net

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Pirate Party (Germany)

• founded 2006 !

• 1 MEP • 45 State Parliament • 401 local seats

!• 25.000 Members

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Elections „Bit Rate“

1 Byte every 4 years

7.927×10^-9 Bytes per second

!

8 Nanobytes/s

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Liquid Democracy

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Transitive Delegation

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Circular delegation

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Liquid Feedback

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Reality check

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Pirate Feedback

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Direct Ruling

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Your Priorities

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Open Motion

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Source: xkcd.com/463

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Links to software• Liquid Feedback http://www.public-software-group.org/

liquid_feedback

• Pirate Feedback http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Pirate_Feedback/en

• Basisentscheid https://github.com/edemocracy/beoportal0

• Better Reykjavik https://betrireykjavik.is/ https://github.com/rbjarnason/your-priorities

• OpenAntrag http://openantrag.de/ https://openantrag.codeplex.com/

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Contact me

• Twitter: @dichter

• Email Gregory.Engels [௹] pp-international.net

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• Copyright 2014 by Gregory Engels. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 License