Changing Democracy With Code: A Word From The Developers - Political Memory - 1 views
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Bridging the gap between politics and citizens
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The complexity of the system, as in “the political system is horribly complex, it’s hard for a citizen to really understand it”.
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Now, let’s use our magical box. We are asked to choose between several candidates, so let’s ask our box to tell us what it knows about them. Well here’s the catch: we end up with a mountain of data that we can barely understand. Complexity just hit us.
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Magic box + la Quadrature du Net’s voting recommendations = semi accurate concrete data on who represents me the best
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Magic box + voting recommendation of all citizen groups that represent our interests = way more accurate concrete data of who represents me the best
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In fact, what I want to see (and to build) in the future would be a website that allows me, and every citizen, to: Select a series of representatives I can vote for; Select a list of citizen groups that I personally trust to represent my interests; Decide if I want to give certain groups more weight to better represent my concerns and priorities (we could even imagine giving negative weight to citizen groups we dislike); And have in result concrete data on which I can rely to make my choice.
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The best reward will come when elected representatives start realising that we actually know what they are doing and that their actions matters. Guess how they will change their behaviour.
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What this magical box is offering you is a paradigm shift, a bridge between those two worlds for them to better understand each other and to work together again
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Memopol is the magical box we are building. It’s time for us, citizens, to take back our role in politics.