Upgrade Democracy: Collective Decision-Making in an Age of Networks (Lift13)

These are the slides that accompanied Micah Daigle's talk at Lift Conference 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland. Here is the video of the talk: http://new.livestream.com/liftconference/lift2013/videos/11052421

Micah is the founder of http://CollectiveAgency.us

Transcript

1. Upgrade Democracy
6. Good time will be kept, and it will be kept by the public.
16. ≠ Democracy is both... an ideal a system LESSON 1
17. Good decisions be made, and they be made by the public.
19. inspires
20. inspires fulfills
24. Flaws in the old system... LESSON 2 inform strengths in the new one.
25. Direct Representative
26. Hybrid
27. Good decisions be made, and they be made by the public.
28. People Decision
30. :( ?
31. :( $ $ $ $ $ :( !
32. Direct Representative
33. People Representatives
35. :(
36. :( !
37. :( !!! $
38. Direct Representative
40. Information & Decision-making
41. Information & Decision-making Relationships & Trust
42. What if...
43. ... we could represent each other on the issues we know best? What if...
45. Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision
46. Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision
47. :)
48. Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision $ :|
49. Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision Decision ! :(
50. ... democracy
51. liquid democracy
52. distributed democracy
53. dynamic democracy
54. networked democracy
56. $ £ € ¥ $ ₣ ¢
57. $ 010 110 011 111 001 101 110
58. Networks are: dynamic resilient adaptive scalable
60. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” LESSON 3 R . B U C K M I N S T E R F U L L E R
66. Upgrade Democracy
67. Upgrade COLLECTIVE D E C I S I O N M A K I N G
68. Epilogue