⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

To conclude, the new computer network will not necessarily be either bad or good. All we know for sure is that it will be alien and it will be fallible. We therefore need to build institutions that will be able to check not just familiar human weaknesses like greed and hatred but also radically alien errors. There is no technological solution to th

The predictable responses to mistrust—engagement only where we feel we are making a difference, the transfer of public functions to private entities, transparency, disengagement, and fear—all present significant challenges to a culture of healthy civic engagement. Unfortunately, a more daunting challenge has emerged as a consequence of mistrust: th

The civic participation platform Decidim, used largely by city governments for citizen feedback, has a modular structure. Its growing library of modules ranges from specific decision-making mechanisms to integrations with other platforms.