| Eric Miller on Mon, 6 Jun 2016 08:06:57 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> Mexico City is crowdsourcing its new constitution |
> On Jun 5, 2016, at 3:25 PM, nettime's consitutional hobbyist <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mexico is launching a big experiment in democracy that promises to turn > people’s ideas into the new law of the land. > > By Rafa Fernandez De Castro > http://fusion.net/story/298572/how-mexico-city-is-using-the-internet-to-crowdsource-its-new-constitution/ Because after all, direct democracy has a sterling track record of sensible and effective governance. Just look north to California. 'Proposition 13 changed political culture. Up to this point, the initiative process had been described as a “safety valve”. Now it became an industry and a circus' http://www.economist.com/node/18548109 (not that I have a better idea, but still…) Eric # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: