WeMatter.com > Open
Source Democracy (OSD)
The WeMatter.com site is one
of a set of sites that is being developed to allow
people to interact with their government "outside" of
the current government structure. As time proceeds
the "community" of these sites may develop
a good, short description of this movement. At
this time (10/09/2004) the best title for the movement
in my mind is "Open Source Democracy <Google>",
as popularized by Douglas
Rushkoff. This page is meant to be a set of
links to various materials on this movement.
- Blog/Forum structure --
One key area of OSD is that allowing
its uses to interact. This should be done via
Blogs, Forums, Mailing lists... (I have recently
been looking at the site Of
by and For, OB4.org,
and so this page both discusses some of these
ideas and offers some suggetions as to how
the OB4 site might be improved.
- Books
about Open Source Democracy #
- Open Source sites
#
- CivicSpace,
a grassroots organizing platform that empowers
collective action inside communities and cohesively
connects remote groups of supporters.
- Of,
By and for: for musings, discussion
and debate about democracy in the aftermath
of the Dean campaign.The common conviction
is that there is an urgent need to change
a political system is not working. (Mitch
Kapor, Bart Decrem and Joe Costello) (original
posting)
- Opine Tree --
is a new online debate magazine
- H
2 O project -- is building
an interlocking collection of communities
based on the free creation and exchange of
ideas.
<About>
<Projects>
- Related sites
#
- ActBlue helps
you maximize the impact of your Democratic
donation dollars. -- The online clearinghouse
for grassroots action (Note: THIS IS A DEMOCRATIC
PARTY SUPPORT SITE, but may show how OSD might
be organized)
- ChangeThis is
a new kind of media. It's calm and thoughtful
and direct and transparent. And unlike
almost every other form of media, it
reaches people through community. If
an idea is a good one, it'll spread, (My
Favorite manifestos)
- OpenDemocracy.net is
an online global magazine of politics and culture.
-- We publish clarifying debates which help
people make up their own minds.
- Personal
Democracy Forum is your place
to meet the people who are making that
change happen, discover the tools powering
the new civic conversation, spot the early
trends, and share in understanding and
embracing this dynamic new force and has
put together the most comprehensive database
of political technology resources found
anywhere on the web. (About)
- Smart
Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold {Smart mobs emerge
when communication and computing technologies
amplify human talents for cooperation}
- see:
Future betting
- Comments about
Open Source Democracy:
#
- The
Rise of Open-Source Politics, By Micah
L. Sifry, -- The Nation. -- Jan 20, 2005.
- Politics
and the Internet -- The
Berkman Center is hosting Internet & Society
2004: Votes, Bits & Bytes, a
conference, to consider, from a skeptical
viewpoint, the impact of the Internet
on politics. -- at Harvard Law School
-- Dec 10, 2004
- The
Zeros vs. the Ones, -- After
witnessing the latest Presidential election
process, it's apparent to me that the Internet
is turning into a bad dream. -- By John C. Dvorak
-- 11.02.04
- Pue
study of eGovernment.. shows
that internet users have greater overall
exposure political arguments, including those
that challenge their candidate preferences
and their positions on some key issues. --
10/27/2004
Note: As part of the Open Source movement there
will be a lot of sites that provide information
about issues, etc. and the ones that I have found
are contained in the WeMatter.com/links area,
and specifically those that are meant to contain
discussion and rating informaition are in the "rating" area.
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