Designed for interested public officials, technologists, politicians and researchers, the CrowdLaw Communiqué features curated news, interviews, announcements, and recommended readings on the evolution of law and policymaking processes for the 21st century.
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3. What We’re Watching CrowdLaw Interviews featuring 18 global experts on CrowdLaw NCCD “Tech Tuesday” call with Robert Bjarnason- Citizens Foundation, Iceland. An interview with Beth Simone Noveck: Cristiano Ferri Faria interviews Beth Noveck on the present and future of participatory lawmaking
4. Announcements Call for papers now open for CONSULCON 2018 in Madrid Call for papers now open for the IOPD Conference in Barcelona Cities for Life event on Thursday, May 10 in Brooklyn, NY
Not So Funny Alexander Stille discusses FSM’s use and misuse of digital engagement tools New York Review of Books (May 10, 2018) Read the article here.
The Open Parliament in the Age of the Internet By Cristiano Ferri Faria Download the book here.
3. WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
CrowdLaw Interviews Professor Victòria Alsina asked participants at the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored CrowdLaw conference in Bellagio, Italy in March 2018 about the impact of technology of lawmaking. Watch here.
Robert Bjarnason, Co-Founder of Iceland’s Citizens Foundation spoke with The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCCD) as part of their “Tech Tuesday” series to discuss how new open source tools and more democratic processes improve public participation in government. Watch the full video here.
Cristiano Ferri Faria, Director of the HackerLab in the Brazilian House of Deputies interviewed Professor Beth Simone Noveck about CrowdLaw and some of the challenges it faces. You can watch the full interview here.
4. ANNOUNCEMENTS
CONSULCON18 is two days of collaborative work and technical conferences organized by Medialab-Prado around CONSUL, the largest participation platform in the world based on Ruby on Rails. The conference recently made an open call for papers to encourage those with participation experience or research related to CONSUL to share their story in Madrid. CONSULCON18 will take place in Madrid from November 22–24, 2018. To submit a proposal, click here.
The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy will host its annual conference from November 26–28 in in Barcelona, Spain. This year’s conference is based on exploring citizen initiatives and direct democracy as ways of encouraging inclusive participation. To submit a proposal, click here.
