[p2p-research] programming a direct democracy

[Henrik Ingo]

Michel,

This was a nice link, though not perhaps for the reason you describe:

I'm packing for a week-long business trip, so the whole article was
too long for me to read now. However, I was glimpsing through it, and
stopped when it talked about sitting in assembly raising hands.
Clearly this is not what I'm interested in with my system. (Academic
writing style gives me headache too!)

Yes, the technique proposed could be modified to a useful tool for
"my" direct democracy society, perhaps... or not. In general I think
"Deliberative Direct Democracy" ideas are misguided, since the
fundamental assumption that people can or should spend all their lives
debating legislation is false. (And since it is false it means that
those who can spend the most time end up with most influence, which I
consider a flaw.)

But, the first comment leads to a very interesting Swedish party, with
analogous ideas to myself. I should be in touch with them sometime.
This is what I wanted to thank you for :-)

henrik

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://efficasync.blogspot.com/2007/07/programming-deliberative-direct.html
>
> Hi Henrik,
>
> re your presentation in nottingham,
>
> I wonder if you could not report on the following on the blog, or invite
> Mark to do so?
>
> Efficasync - How to Program a Direct Democracy
>
> Programming a Deliberative Direct-Democracy.
> A Method of Open-Source Self-Governance.
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