Accueil - France Nature Environnement. PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid free ebook download. John Pilger Video. Out in the Open: Occupy Wall Street Reincarnated as Open Source Software | Enterprise. Image: Loomio Benjamin Knight helped run the Occupy camp in Wellington, New Zealand. It was 2011, when the globe was dotted with camps inspired by Occupy Wall Street, that iconic protest against economic and social inequality.
As part of Occupy Wellington, Knight didn’t just camp out on the street. He participated in the daily “General Assembly” meetings, an effort to reach a consensus on a variety of protest issues and ultimately make everyone’s voice heard. He loved the process — when it worked. With the right web software, he thought, it should be possible to give everyone in the group a voice. He knew there had to be a better way.
The result was Loomio, an open source web application for making group decisions. There are plenty of tools for having discussions online, ranging from social networks to forums to “idea management” tools like Spigit or even Whitehouse.gov. The Split Screen The Loomio interface is simple. No Silver Bullet. Out in the Open: An Open Source Website That Gives Voters a Platform to Influence Politicians | Enterprise. This is the decade of the protest. The Arab Spring. The Occupy Movement. And now the student demonstrations in Taiwan. Argentine political scientist Pia Mancini says we’re caught in a “crisis of representation.”
“If you want to participate in the political system as it is, it’s really costly,” she says. Democracy OS is designed to address that problem by getting citizens directly involved in debating specific proposals when their representatives are actually voting on them. That’s why Mancini started the Net Democracy foundation, a not-for-profit that explores ways of improving civic engagement through technology. Mancini’s dissatisfaction with electoral politics stems from her experience working for the Argentine political party Unión Celeste y Blanco from 2010 until 2012. Democracy OS is designed to address that problem by getting citizens directly involved in debating specific proposals when their representatives are actually voting on them. Click to Open Overlay Gallery. §.