Trying to finish my 'Democracy in Crisis?' course on a rousing note by introducing my students to lots of new ideas for how we can improve #democracy. A few examples below... Add your favourite to the thread! #demopart #delibdem #democraticinnovations 1/
Barcelona's programme to create a bottom-up smart city, as descibed by @francesca_bria 2/
@ParticipatoryC's attempts to scale up coproduction in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham: static1.squarespace.com/static/55cdc31… … 3/
An open source approach to democracy: blog.ted.com/further-readin… … and the crowdsourcing of Iceland's constitution: theconversation.com/icelands-crowd… … 4/
The Better Reykjavik initiative developed by @CitizensFNDN to enable citizens to contribute their ideas to for improving the city: citizens.is/portfolio_page…
And an existing succesful attempt at policy-making using sortition: The Irish Citizens' Assembly @CitizAssembly citizensassembly.ie/en/ 7/
Finally, what about Liquid Democracy? 8/
As I said, please feel free to add your own favourite ideas/initiatives for how we might make democracy better #democracy #demopart #delibdem #democraticinnovations
