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A growing community of global #CrowdLaw practitioners

Posted October 6, 2015 at 2:50pm by gregbrownm

This post was written by Maria Hermosilla and Julia Root and originally appeared on The GovLab’s blog

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On September 24th, The GovLab held its third online global conference on #CrowdLaw. Practitioners from 16 countries discussed the challenges and lessons learned when crowdsourcing legislation and constitutions. The session including lightning talks by practitioners with projects from Austria, Brazil, Chile, Finland, United States, Morocco, Libya and Spain and then a broader group discussion on three themes:

  • Outreach strategies
  • Designing to overcome barriers; and
  • Measuring impact.

The goal of the conference was to deepen our collective understanding of what works, what doesn’t, how to assess impact, and accelerate the implementation of more effective and legitimate participatory lawmaking practices.

The full video is available here. Featured speakers and projects included:

  • PODEMOS, SPAIN – Victoria Alsina, visiting researcher at Harvard, is working with 5 leading politicians of the Spanish political party Podemos to research how they are using technology to increase citizen participation in politics from voting every four years to a more day to day basis. She discussed two tools: the Plaza Podemos, that is based on Reddit and is a place of contact and debate for their followers, organized by thematic and territorial circles. It is used regularly by 15,000 people. They also use Appgreefor massive brainstorm sessions and doing quick surveys and for approving proposals. They have had up to 60,000 participants voting on Appgree.
  • NEOS, AUSTRIA – Josef Lentsch, Managing Director of Neos Lab and Karl-Arthur Arlamovsky from Austrian political party NEOS discussed the tools they are using to implement their vision of making politics more open and participatory. Thematic groups at a local, regional and national level composed by thousand of volunteer policy advisors draft policy proposals on “Policy Forge”, a customized collaborative drafting platform. Neos has a cockpit composed of tools such as a calendar, customer relation management system, wiki, meeting software, among others.

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PMO News Update: Vol. 19

Posted February 1, 2013 at 2:34pm by danswislow

The first day of PDF Poland-CEE is over, but the unconference event begins tomorrow. There will be a session on PMO work, so follow along with the Twitter hashtag #PDFPoland and on the event’s website.

News from the parliamentary monitoring community:

In Libya, a new parliamentary monitoring project was launched called Eye on GNC. Check out the project’s website, and a quick news blip here.

In Pakistan, PILDAT launched their Assessment of the Quality of Democracy in Pakistan for the year 2012. Read the story on PILDAT’s website.

In the US and the UK, the Sunlight Foundation and mySociety were awarded significant grants to expand their civic innovation programs. Read more about it on Sunlight’s blog and mySociety’s blog.

In South Africa, Parliamentary Monitoring Group launched its review of the parliament in 2012. The review details significant issues that arose during the last year in the parliament, gives awards to specific committees for exemplary work, and provides advice for improvement.

In Spain, Access Info Europe launched a campaign to raise the €3,000 fine imposed on them by the Spanish Supreme Court for attempting to access public information. They quickly raised more than €10,000 from supporters

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