[p2p-research] p2p-like law making: Italian law proposal for Net neutrality put on a wiki for collaborative editing

[Marco Fioretti]

Greetings,

this is surely not as advanced and revolutionary as other topics
announced on this list, but I think it's good news anyway.

Two senators of the Italian Democratic party, Vincenzo Vita and Luigi
Vimercati, have written a law proposal which defends Net Neutrality
and promotes non proprietary formats and software in public
administrations and Universities.

While this may not be, in and by itself, relevant news on a list like
this, what is good, regardless of one's political opinions, is the
method: they put the whole text online on a public wiki, where
everybody will be able to add comments, suggest amendments and so
on. The wiki address is http://tinyurl.com/DDL-Vita-Vimercati

As far as I remember, this is one of the first times, if not the first
time, that a law proposal is open to all citizens in this way here in
Italy.

Of course, it's not P2P in the complete sense, since the wiki is just
to gather feedback: eventually, Vita and Vimercati will be the only
ones to decide which text is actually proposed for voting to the
Parliament. Still, it's good that there *is* a really open
consultation process and that at least that phase happens in a way
that puts all participants on an equal basis. Let's hope this becomes
the rule here.

Related question: can you provide links to other cases like this, in
other countries? Thanks!

Marco
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