future of government

[John T. Maloney (jheuristic)]

Why crowdsourcing should (and maybe will) be the future of government

Ross Dawson, June 14, 2011 at 11:04 pm

You may have seen the marvelous news that Iceland is crowdsourcing its new constitution.

Draft clauses are put up on the Internet for people to comment on below, or on the Council’s Facebook page. Council meetings are open and streamed live, video interviews with council members are posted on YouTube, and they interact with citizens on Twitter. Since the constitution will be put to a referendum when it is completed, they very rightly thought citizens should be involved from the outset.

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