Comments on: eDemocracyCamp: National Policy Discussion and Online Component http://willfjohnston.com/2008/03/02/edemocracycamp-national-policy-discussion-and-online-component/ Not just another WordPress weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:20:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: dead_drederS http://willfjohnston.com/2008/03/02/edemocracycamp-national-policy-discussion-and-online-component/#comment-4212 dead_drederS Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:36:11 +0000 http://willfjohnston.com/2008/03/02/edemocracycamp-national-policy-discussion-and-online-component/#comment-4212 Priveet!! Medveed!!! Priveet!! Medveed!!!

]]> By: inergeedits http://willfjohnston.com/2008/03/02/edemocracycamp-national-policy-discussion-and-online-component/#comment-2410 inergeedits Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:18:56 +0000 http://willfjohnston.com/2008/03/02/edemocracycamp-national-policy-discussion-and-online-component/#comment-2410 Is this gonna end someday?? Is this gonna end someday??

]]> By: OpenSource Connections » Blog Archive » eDemocracy barCamp Podcasting session summary http://willfjohnston.com/2008/03/02/edemocracycamp-national-policy-discussion-and-online-component/#comment-33 OpenSource Connections » Blog Archive » eDemocracy barCamp Podcasting session summary Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:29:17 +0000 http://willfjohnston.com/2008/03/02/edemocracycamp-national-policy-discussion-and-online-component/#comment-33 [...] it. I attended sessions on Interactive messaging, eGovernment in the UK, voting methods, and integration of large scale conversations, all of which were very [...] [...] it. I attended sessions on Interactive messaging, eGovernment in the UK, voting methods, and integration of large scale conversations, all of which were very [...]

]]> By: Evan Ravitz http://willfjohnston.com/2008/03/02/edemocracycamp-national-policy-discussion-and-online-component/#comment-24 Evan Ravitz Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:11:38 +0000 http://willfjohnston.com/2008/03/02/edemocracycamp-national-policy-discussion-and-online-component/#comment-24 I think the answer to all the questions like "How to get lots of people?", "How to keep them engaged?", etc. is: make the results of all the process binding. The problems aren't technical -Bucky Fuller proposed voting by telephone "on all prominent issues before Congress" in his 1940 book "No More 2nd-hand God"- and that would have worked even before computers! The problem is political: for 101 years Congress has refused to share power by instituting NATIONAL ballot initiatives. Former Sen. Mike Gravel has found a way to ratify the National Initiative for Democracy WITHOUT begging Congress. YOU can now vote to ratify the National Initiative at http://Vote.org, much as citizens ratified the Constitution at the Conventions. I think the answer to all the questions like “How to get lots of people?”, “How to keep them engaged?”, etc. is: make the results of all the process binding. The problems aren’t technical -Bucky Fuller proposed voting by telephone “on all prominent issues before Congress” in his 1940 book “No More 2nd-hand God”- and that would have worked even before computers! The problem is political: for 101 years Congress has refused to share power by instituting NATIONAL ballot initiatives.

Former Sen. Mike Gravel has found a way to ratify the National Initiative for Democracy WITHOUT begging Congress. YOU can now vote to ratify the National Initiative at http://Vote.org, much as citizens ratified the Constitution at the Conventions.

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