The First CrowdLaw Unconference (2014) | What We Know & Still Most Need to Know About Crowdlaw

On June 2, 2014 GovLab Academy hosted the first of two online “unconferences” to bring together leaders and practitioners of CrowdLaw, including online legislative drafting and constitution writing organizers and platform creators.

We organized this opportunity to learn from one another about what works, what doesn’t and what to do better to promote the institutionalization of CrowdLaw as a means of engaging citizens more proactively and directly in our legislative processes.

In each of these peer-to-peer learning sessions, crowdlaw implementers from around the world shared their experiences and then joined in a moderated conversation to talk about:

• Design: What makes for successful crowdlaw projects: what works, what doesn’t?
• Incentives: How to encourage people to participate?
• Impediments: What are the legal, cultural, technological and other obstacles?
• Metrics: How to measure what works and demonstrate both legitimacy and effectiveness?

Read more about the first online conference here, the second online conference here and the third online conference here.