1. ANNOUNCEMENTS

NEW! CrowdLaw Catalog Launches!
The CrowdLaw Catalog is a growing repository of 100 CrowdLaw cases from around the world. The goal of the catalog is to help those wishing to start new or improve existing CrowdLaw projects to learn from one another.

Click here to explore the catalog!

2. CROWDLAW BLOG

French National Assembly hosts dialogue on participatory democracy
By Nicola Forster, Co-Founder, Foraus & Ivo Scherrer, Co-Founder, Argo

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Children’s CrowdLaw: A Definitions Contest
By José Luis Martí
Professor of Law,
Pompeu Fabra University

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Congress Is Broken. CrowdLaw Could Help Fix It
By Beth Simone Noveck
Director, The Governance Lab

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CrowdLaw: When the Intelligence of Crowds Knocks At The State’s Door
By Cristiano Ferri Faria
Director,
HackerLabs- Brazil

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3. PAPERS AND REPORTS

• A curated list of ten recommended academic articles on CrowdLaw compiled by the GovLab.
• For more readings on crowdlaw, visit the Open Governance Research Exchange- A repository of selected publications on Open Governance, Open Data, Citizen Engagement and much more.
• Integrated Deliberation and Voting in Participatory Drafting of Legislation- Professor of Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Ehud Shapiro and Nimrod Talmon propose a process for participatory legislation that integrates two seemingly antithetic ideas- Deliberation and Voting.
• Shaping Legislation Together: Human-centered approaches in the legislative context- Expert Report by Caroline Paulick-Thiel (Founder, NextLearning) for Unit 133 (Bureaucracy Reduction Office) in the German Chancellery, Berlin)
• A Theoretical Framework for the DSI Index by Jonathan Bone, Codrina Cretu and Matt Stokes (NESTA)
• LabPlus: Better Rules for Government Discovery Report by Nadia Webster, Service Innovation Lab, New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs

4. WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

CrowdLaw Speaker Series
We spoke to the drivers of CrowdLaw initiatives from around the world to hear their stories and learn from their experiences. Watch all the videos here.

5. CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

• OGP Global Summit 2018 (Georgia, July 17–19, 2018): The Open Government Partnership is hosting its annual global summit in Tbilisi, Georgia. For more information, click here.
• Designing Collective Intelligence: Mobilizing humans and machines to address social needs (London, September 17, 2018): A day of talks, workshops and discussions to map the best tools and methods for collective intelligence; to learn from the inspiring people and projects already pioneering important work in this space; and to discuss how we can make the most of the opportunity in collective intelligence through research, experiments and practical programs. To register, click here.
• Democratic Constitutional Design: The Future of Public Engagement is a conference that will be hosted by EDDA Research Center at the University of Iceland in cooperation with the Prime Minister‘s office on 27–29 September 2018. The conference has two main objectives. One is to create a venue for a discussion of newest developments in democratic participation and public engagement. A second objective is to facilitate exchange between academics, policy-makers and citizens. Read more about the conference here.