Fuller participation can create an ethic of co-operation, says Darshana Narayanan of The Governance Lab at NYU
CURRENT FORMS of democracy exclude most people from political decision-making. We elect representatives and participate in the occasional referendums, but we mainly remain on the outside. The result is that a handful of people in power dictate what ought to be collective decisions. What we have now is hardly a democracy, or at least, not a democracy that we should settle for.
They are working with the public towards a democracy which is more open, direct and interactive. One of Madrid’s most successful projects is the Decide Madrid platform, which is run on free software called Consul. It was developed in 2015 by the Madrid City Council. The platform enables residents to propose, support and vote on policies for the city, and ensures transparency in all city proceedings.
With more than 450,000 users, Decide Madrid is becoming a popular place for citizen engagement. Yet online participation may not be for everyone. So it is crucial that the broadest number of people are included. The city government is augmenting the digital platform with physical forums for face-to-face interactions.Next, consider Taiwan. Its digital-democracy initiatives, like those of Madrid, were also born of rebellion.
The vTaiwan project was developed in a hackathon by a civic-tech community called g0v, whose members were part of the Sunflower Movement. They aimed to bring the “rough consensus and running code” ethos of open-source software to civic deliberation. It is now run by a citizen coalition with the involvement of Digital Minister Audrey Tang .
They aimed to bring the “rough consensus and running code” ethos of open-source software to civic deliberation
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