September 11, 2021 Working paper Open Access

Fabio Balli

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{
  "publisher": "Zenodo", 
  "DOI": "10.5281/zenodo.5501044", 
  "language": "eng", 
  "title": "Global crises, democratic solutions\u2014within days. Using Internet to empower citizens, reach popular consensus, and ensure democratic decision-making [Preprint]", 
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2021, 
        9, 
        11
      ]
    ]
  }, 
  "abstract": "<p>In the last months, governments around the world have adopted public policies to promote large-scale vaccination, and covid certificates. Whether such measures are adequate or not has been largely debated. But why have such debates emerged? To this day, alternatives to centralized decision-making have been limitedly discussed.</p>\n\n<p>Here, I present how an online platform could help thousands of citizens express their needs (plurality), agree on common priorities (popular consensus), and pool resources to become the protagonists of a common project, like body cells coordinate in real time to preserve life.</p>\n\n<p>Building on the commons, on the free/libre and open-source movement (crowdsourcing), on short online events (hackathons), and on a method to coordinate large groups, I sketch how such a platform could help citizens build solidarity-driven solutions during three-day events.</p>", 
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Fabio Balli"
    }
  ], 
  "note": "Editable file: https://houseofcommons.ch/pub/balli_brief.odt \u2013 Commentable file: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BiNEdJetmszYp4Qj8-05yuVyzLMvwR-0/", 
  "version": "1.2", 
  "type": "article", 
  "id": "5501044"
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