Presentation from #g0vsummit 2014 in Taipeh In the classical democratic systems a citizen gets a vote to express his will. This happen on a regular basis, typical once every four years. One bit of information (one cross) in four years is not great in terms of bandwidth. In todays world of ever present availability of broadband citizen demand a higher upload rate into political system. The Pirate Parties advocate for an „Democracy Upgrade“, by utilizing new software enhanced processes for citizen involvement. One of such approaches is Liquid Democracy and its software implementation Liquid Feedback. In this talk you will learn about it and other systems in use by the Pirate Parties.

1. Democracy Upgrade
Gregory Engels g0v.tw summit 2014
Photo: cc by-nc-sa S_K_S

2. Gregory Engels
• Pirate
• Founding Co-Chairman Pirate
Parties International
• IT-Enterpreneur
• City Council in Offenbach
(Germany)

3. Pirate Parties
International
(PPI)
• Founded April
2010 in
Brussels
• Pirate Parties
from 44
countries
• ~600 Seats
worldwide
Source: Piratetimes.net

4. Pirate Party
(Germany)
• founded 2006
!
• 1 MEP
• 45 State Parliament
• 401 local seats
!
• 25.000 Members

6. Elections „Bit Rate“
1 Byte every 4 years
7.927×10^-9 Bytes per second
!
8 Nanobytes/s

9. Liquid Democracy

10. Transitive Delegation

11. Circular delegation

12. Liquid Feedback

14. Reality check

15. Pirate Feedback

17. Direct Ruling

19. Your Priorities

21. Open Motion

24. Source: xkcd.com/463

25. Links to software
• Liquid Feedback http://www.public-software-group.org/
liquid_feedback
• Pirate Feedback http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/
Pirate_Feedback/en
• Basisentscheid https://github.com/edemocracy/beoportal0
• Better Reykjavik https://betrireykjavik.is/ https://github.com/
rbjarnason/your-priorities
• OpenAntrag http://openantrag.de/ https://
openantrag.codeplex.com/

26. Contact me
• Twitter: @dichter
• Email Gregory.Engels [௹] pp-international.net

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• Copyright 2014 by Gregory Engels.
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