crowdsourcing a constitution
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Crowdsourcing a
Constitution in practice
Dr. Matthijs Pontier
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Trust civilians vs Distrust ‘power'
Enthusiastic about tech, but alert on risks
Use tech to empower; not to repress
Free sharing of information, art and culture
Evidence-based policy with long-term vision
Stimulate self-determination, but keep rights
Basic principles Pirate Party
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• Why do we need top-down governance
when we can decide for ourselves?
Leaderless decision making
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e-Democracy• Easily participate in democratic process
• Vote on ideas; not on parties or persons
• Power of Ideas replace the idea of power
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Better Reykjavik
• Jon Gnarr: Comedian who
critized corruption
and became mayor
of Reykjavik
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• Formal collaboration with the city of
Reykjavík connect citizens to their
representatives
• Over 70.000 of 120.000 people participated
• 15 top ideas processed every month
• 476 ideas have been approved
Better Reykjavik
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Better Reykjavik
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• Over 600.000 users since 2008
• Scales well, easy to translate and adapt
• Used in Iceland, Estonia, Australia, USA, UK,
and elsewhere
Your Priorities
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• citizens.is
Better Alamance
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• Everybody can add ideas
• Everybody can add arguments
• Erverybody can vote up / down
• Best ideas and arguments come up
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0lFd
1poJfs
How does it work?
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• Points for and against are in different columns
which makes it hard to argue
• This encourages rational debate and helps
facilitate consensus
Don’t argue, debate!
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• Prioritization of ideas and points
makes junk disappear down lists
•Users notify admins about offending
content
•Users get 3 warnings and are banned on
the 4th
• They never yet had to ban a user
Abuse protection
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Loomio
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Amsterdam West
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Combine online & offline
• Improve traditional democratic processes
• Brainstorm online -> assembly offline -> vote
on/offline
• Enhance offline assemblies with direct
online feedback from active audience
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Constitution Iceland
• 1000 randomly selected civilians held assembly;
gave a 700-page advise about principles and
values in Constitution
• 25 elected civilians (out of 522) held assemblies
and wrote the Constitution
• Before assemblies, elected civilians asked for
feedback, leading to ~4000 comments
• 2/3 civilians supported Constitution in
referendum
• Constitution killed by conservative politicians
• Pirate party protested this, and got popular..Matthijs Pontier, Fabcity campus Amsterdam, 26-5-2016 Crowdsourcing a constitution for the EU
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Crowdsourcing a constitution
for the EU Constitution was voted down in referendum
Lisbon-treaty largely same; no referendum
Symbolic for democratic deficit in EU
EU should be by the people, for the people
https://www.peoplesconstitution.eu
Twitter: @CrowdsourceEU
Facebook: Crowdsource Europe
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Accept values / ideas /
articles / amendments, when:• Popular enough
• Not too controversial
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Thanks!• @Matthijs85
• Matthijs Pontier
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthijspontier
• End of june, PPNL will elect the lead candidate for the 2017 elections.
• https://www.piratenpartij.nl
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