Rosa Clemente, the Green Party’s 2008 Vice Presidential candidate, declared during her campaign that “the Green Party is no longer the alternative, the Green Party is the imperative.” Events since then have not really borne her out. Was she wrong? Was she just using hyperbolic rhetoric? Or was she simply ahead of her time? In …
Continue reading Writing Challenge: Is the Green Party the imperative?A Facebook group called Upgrade Democracy (http://www.facebook.com/groups/upgradedemocracy) is collecting a list of
teams/organizations working on technology-powered solutions to the systemic problems of governance/group decision-making.
They want help in expanding the list but
Please don’t add projects that simply use technology to slightly enhance our current political system (e.g. electronic petitions). We’re upgrading the democratic operating system, not tweaking the interface. 😉
http://www.facebook.com/groups…
Teams / Organizations Working to Upgrade Democracy
By Frank Grove, Ben Woosley and 5 others in Upgrade Democracy Community
Circle Voting http://www.circlevoting.com
CodeForAmerica http://codeforamerica.org/
Deliberative Democracy (Stanford) http://cdd.stanford.edu/
DemDash http://demdash.us/
DemocracyLab http://democracylab.org/
Dynamic Democracy (US) http://upgradedemocracy.org
HackDemocracy http://hackdemocracy.org
Hypothes.is http://hypothes.is/
LayerVote http://layervote.com/
Open Assembly http://openassembly.org
Personal Democracy Forum http://personaldemocracy.com/
Participant Labs http://participantlabs.com/
ReFrameIt http://reframeit.com/
Seasteading Institute http://seasteading.org
TwoSides http://www.twosides.co/
Village Votes http://villagevotes.com/wiki/V…
VoteReports http://votereports.org/
VoteSF http://votesf.com/
Wecision http://wecision.com/