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A few years ago, Iceland made the news (with some distortion) by "crowdsourcing" a new Constitution. [1] I find this an intriguing project, but getting sufficie
by saraid216 13y ago
A few years ago, Iceland made the news (with some distortion) by "crowdsourcing" a new Constitution. [1] I find this an intriguing project, but getting sufficient representation from a nation of 300 million is several orders of magnitude harder than getting the same for a nation of 300 thousand.
What if we could do it anyways? What would an IT project for creating and maintaining a Constitution look like? We talk about version control for legislation, but what kind of systems might we build in order to maintain the Constitution itself? What kind of review process would we put in order to maintain data truth? Or perhaps we wouldn't have truth, but rather distribute it and fragment things while converging it periodically? Would that be possible? How, why?
[1] The scare quotes are because the headline actually misrepresented the depth of the citizens' actual impact. You can do the googling if you want details.