Slideshow JEF Edinburgh civictech

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E-DEMOCRACY: CONNECTING EUROPEAN YOUTH AND POLITICS THROUGH DIGITAL TOOLSACTIVITY #1 - EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND FEBRUARY 3RD, 2017

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Valentin ChaputCo-founder Open Source Politics Member of Democracy OS & Open Democracy Now Author ‘’Democracy 4.0’’ for point d’aencrage think-tank Lecturer Sciences Po Lille & Saint-Germain-en-Laye ! citizen born in " sharing myeuropeandream.eu

Introduction

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Today

‣ Part I: Building common understanding about civic tech and digital participation: what it is? what is at stake?

lunch

‣ Part II: Discovering initiatives, presentation and exchange around existing projects

Introduction

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PART I BUILDING COMMON UNDERSTANDING ABOUT CIVIC TECH AND DIGITAL PARTICIPATION

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Building Common Understanding

The Digital Natives

In a regular day, which online tools do you use

and how long?

draw a pie chart

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Building Common Understanding

The Digital Age

In less than 30 years, the Internet has spread

almost everywhere and has impacted almost everything.

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The Digital Divide

We are not equal in front of a digital device.

18 % of UE28 citizens has never used the Internet. Google France / Roland Berger, jan.2017

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Building Common Understanding

The Digital Challenge

p2p co-revolution with the 99 % VS oligarchic power and fake news?

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The Democratic Turmoil

Medium Intensity Democracies.

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The Democratic Uprising

Spain Egypt Ukraine

Tunisia United States Taïwan

Iceland Hong Kong Mexico

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The Democratic Awakening

Democracy should not be reduced to elections! Collective intelligence driving citizen participation.

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"We are 21st century citizens doing our best to interact with 19th century designed institutions that are based on an information technology of the 15th century. It's time we start asking: What is democracy for the internet era?"Pia Mancini, 2014

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coffee break

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Building Common Understanding

A Brief History of Civic Tech

It all started back in the 90s!

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A Narrowed Definition of Civic Tech

The most accurate definition of civic technologies encompasses all the apps and platforms that purposely reinforce Citizen

Engagement, Democratic Participation and Government Transparency.

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Defining Civic Tech by Concrete Actions

civic technologies bring new tools to interact with the life cycle of a public decision, from the design of a new idea

to the results of its implementation.

Information Mobilization

Representation

Decision

Evaluation

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Defining Civic Tech by Stakeholders

CIVIC-TECH POL-TECH

GOV-TECH

‣ Gov Tech = when an institution has the initiative.

‣ Pol Tech = when it is related to political polling and campaigning.

‣ Civic Tech = when civil society organisations create open source tools to achieve a cause.

We need to focus on building digital commons.

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Building Common Understanding

Defining Civic Tech by Technical Standards

‘’Code is Law’’ game

THE BLACK-BOX OF E-DEMOCRACY

your vote

collective decision

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"Our choice is not between ‘regulation’ and ‘no regulation’. The code regulates. It implements values, or not. It enables freedoms, or disables them. It protects privacy, or promotes monitoring. People choose how the code does these things. People write the code. Thus the choice is not whether people will decide how cyberspace regulates. People—coders—will. The only choice is whether we collectively will have a role in their choice—and thus in determining how these values regulate—or whether collectively we will allow the coders to select our values for us.’’

Pr. Lawrence Lessig Code is Law, 2000

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lunch

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PART II DISCOVERING INITIATIVES: PRESENTATION AND EXCHANGE AROUND EXISTING PROJECTS

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Afternoon challenge

go online and start a European Citizen Initiative

or contribute to the New Narrative for Europe.

Discovering Initiatives

Online Participation

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Discovering Initiatives

Improving Information

Towards real-time collaborative writing of our laws.

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Discovering Initiatives

Strengthening Mobilizations

Towards impact driven hacktivism.

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Discovering Initiatives

From Slacktivism to Hacktivism

The Civic Participation Learning Curve. inspired by Audrey Tang

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Discovering Initiatives

Renewing Representation

Towards liquid democracy powered by proxy-voting.

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Discovering Initiatives

Making Better Decisions

Towards participatory decision making and budgeting at every scale.

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Discovering Initiatives

Opening Access to Public Data

Towards fairer and more efficient public policies and services.

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Discovering Initiatives

Going Further

Sharing OpenGov initiatives and good practices worldwide.

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Conclusion

Civic Tech Did Not Prove Enough Yet

We still have to

‣ Find a sustainable business model

‣Grow the French open source ecosystem

‣ Reconnect (with) citizens on every field

‣ Change the way politics is done

‣ Experiment liquid democracy with blockchain applications

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Conclusion

How To Contribute

Take part in our next hackathon: Nuit du Code citoyen, March 4-5 @SquareParis

‣ Follow the conversation: ‣ twitter.com/OpenSourcePol

‣ Join our events: ‣ meetup.com/Open-Source-Politics

‣ Read our articles: ‣ medium.com/Open-Source-Politics

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Conclusion

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Thank you

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