On Participatory Democracy

Tom Atlee and Joe Firestone shared some insights on IVCS Interactive voter choice system, which could constitute a good user case for the platform.
http://menemania.typepad.com/h...

I'm very interested in participatory democracy which talks to collective intelligence and dealing with complexity and not to the possible tyranny of a well manipulated majority... I am very weary about mass organized deceptive or reductionist campaigns. We exchanged a few comments on Kony elsewhere...

I believe civil society and in particular young people should participate in policy making for the commons. This ought to be the real meaning of politics. Here's a paper I wrote on the subject at the end of last year: http://issuu.com/we-magazine/d...

On an eParticipation platform for Human Political Complex Adaptive Systems

Joe Firestone shared on my blog the links to the conceptual foundations and requirements for a Meta-Layer for Restoring Democracy and Open Democracy he wrote with Henk Hadders. This could well have been written for this project.

A Meta-layer for Restoring Democracy and Open Society

Part One, Conceptual Foundations: http://www.correntewire.com/a_meta_layer_for_restoring_democracy_and_open_society_part_one_conceptual_foundations

Part Two, Meta-layer Requirements: http://www.correntewire.com/a_meta_layer_for_restoring_democracy_and_open_society_part_two_meta_layer_requirements

"The new institutional framework must provide a meta-layer of political interaction and networking that places new ecological constraints on the current political system, driving it back towards a condition in which the ability of individuals to both arrive at more accurate constructions of reality, and act on them, through increased self-organization and distributed knowledge processing, is dominant."

Joe and Henk, I would be glad to collaborate further to make this platform a reality. We are converging here.