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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>facilitated by Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath<br />
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==What Exists==<br />
* Pirate Party's "Liquid Democracy"<br />
* Spanish Cooperatives / M15 (Austerity protests)<br />
* UK Open Knowledge<br />
* Brooklyn, Participatory Budgeting<br />
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==Parties / Structures==<br />
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* D-Cent is an EU funded project to build software for dissident political parties.<br />
* Pirate Party's "Liquid Democracy" -- members debate online and the politicians are obliged to act according to directions from membership.<br />
===Finland===<br />
* In Finland, you can vote / ID with your debit card; and you can force laws into parliament.<br />
===Iceland=== <br />
* In Iceland, they tried to rewrite the constitution with a wiki and collaborative process. <br />
** That didn't work, but a part of the budget is decided through a public process.<br />
===Italy===<br />
* In Italy, 5-Star Movement<br />
** The largest party in the senate.<br />
** Outwardly super democratic; inwardly, lots of scandals about power. <br />
** But they're doing some cool things. <br />
*** They validate identity with RSA keys<br />
*** As a party member you can be designated an expert and verified as an expert and they pull experts at random to form juries to evaluate particular policy changes/proposals. <br />
*** So the process takes policy through a jury process to a public vote and then where the party has a majority they vote and it passes. <br />
*** Difficulty is that where they're not in the majority, they don't have the power to negotiate without going back to their membership to approve changes to the law. <br />
===Argentina===<br />
* In Argentina, there are 900 political parties, one of which is exploring some direct democracy methods. <br />
===Spain===<br />
In Spain, "the X party" (Partido de los Equis) is much earlier in the organizing process.<br />
===Note:===<br />
* Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Iceland, Denmark, Estonia all have national electronic ids.<br />
* This stuff all works better where there's an electronic id system. A lot of european countries have a single electronic login system tied to bank accounts and identity. <br />
* Liquid Democracy has delegated voting -- you can designate someone else to vote on your behalf.<br />
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==Question==<br />
Can we talk about the difference between negotiation and horse trading? <br />
==Online Debate Tools==<br />
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===Your Priorities=== <br />
Rails Software -- "Your Priorities" is designed to avoid flame wars. Modeled around a single issue and pro/con forums; you can only make refinements to the position you've taken. <br />
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Eg. Marijuana Legalization proposal: people can work in parallel to refine their arguement/proposal but you can't make a counter argument against someone else's arguement. So it changes the structure of debate. Individual proposals get voted up or down and refined.<br />
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* Questions we have: what happens with issues that have more than one side?<br />
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===Estonia E-Voting===<br />
The software is on github. <br />
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==More thoughts==<br />
Pirate Parties have been really strong on freedom of expression and internet freedom, but when it came time to vote on all kinds of other things, the parties don't have a position and it was really hard to coalesce around consensus on economic policy.<br />
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In response to austerity, a lot of very right wing populist parties were/are in ascent. That is one of many things that is complicated about current European politics. <br />
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Attention disparity is a big deal -- some people have a lot of time to be involved, some people don't. Needing to work shouldn't be disenfranchizing.<br />
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In European organizations there is a long tradition of membership organizations. Which has drawbacks and is complicated but normalizes participation.<br />
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==Participatory Budgeting==<br />
NYC is doing it, it isn't new. In Brazil it is normal.</div>Vivian