Citizenship Online Open Source Politics
summary
Argues that online civic deliberation needs concrete features not fuzzy promises and lists what works: exposition, polling, analysis, testimony for personal decisions and iteration, ternary voting, ratification for group decisions. Demonstrates prototypes and tooling: a Robert's Rules implementation as a jQuery plugin that enforces ternary votes, a civitas ARG mapping prototype and grant proposal, e‑liberate in progress, MySQL/MVC backend, long polling limits on cheap shared hosting that fail past four concurrent users. Notes NCDD scale of 1100 or 1400 members and only five developers among ~400 at one conference.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Online civic engagement intro
- 3:44What is deliberation
- 9:22Deliberation tools spectrum
- 17:37Exploratory deliberation features
- 23:19Group decision iteration
- 25:45Speed and conflict in deliberation
- 30:36Lean participatory tools
- 35:27Open source civic projects
- 41:46Democracy Lab funding
- 43:11Civitas gamified participation
- 49:21Open source global democracy
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