Presentation "e-Democracy: Connecting European Youth and Politics Through Digital Tools" for JEF Europe seminar in Edinburgh, Scotland on February 3rd, 2017.

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E-DEMOCRACY:
CONNECTING EUROPEAN
YOUTH AND POLITICS
THROUGH DIGITAL TOOLS
ACTIVITY #1 - EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
FEBRUARY 3RD, 2017

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Valentin Chaput
Co-founder Open Source Politics
Member of Democracy OS & Open Democracy Now
Author ‘’Democracy 4.0’’ for point d’aencrage think-tank
Lecturer Sciences Po Lille & Saint-Germain-en-Laye
! citizen born in " sharing myeuropeandream.eu
Introduction

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Today
‣ Part I: Building common understanding
about civic tech and digital participation:
what it is? what is at stake?
lunch
‣ Part II: Discovering initiatives, presentation
and exchange around existing projects
Introduction

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PART I
BUILDING
COMMON
UNDERSTANDING
ABOUT
CIVIC TECH
AND DIGITAL
PARTICIPATION

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Building Common Understanding
The Digital Natives
In a regular day,
which online tools do you use
and how long?
draw a pie chart

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Building Common Understanding
The Digital Age
In less than 30 years,
the Internet has spread
almost everywhere
and has impacted
almost everything.

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Building Common Understanding
The Digital Divide
We are not equal in front of a digital device.
18 % of UE28 citizens has never used the Internet.
Google France / Roland Berger, jan.2017

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Building Common Understanding
The Digital Challenge
p2p co-revolution with the 99 % VS oligarchic power and fake news?

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Building Common Understanding
The Democratic Turmoil
Medium Intensity Democracies.

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Building Common Understanding
The Democratic Uprising
Spain Egypt Ukraine
Tunisia United States Taïwan
Iceland Hong Kong Mexico

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Building Common Understanding
The Democratic Awakening
Democracy should not be reduced to elections!
Collective intelligence driving citizen participation.

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"We are 21st century
citizens doing our best to
interact with 19th century
designed institutions that
are based on an
information technology
of the 15th century.
It's time we start asking:
What is democracy for
the internet era?"
Pia Mancini, 2014

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coffee break

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Building Common Understanding
A Brief History of Civic Tech
It all started back in the 90s!

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Building Common Understanding
A Narrowed Definition of Civic Tech
The most accurate definition of civic technologies encompasses
all the apps and platforms that purposely reinforce Citizen
Engagement, Democratic Participation and Government Transparency.

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Building Common Understanding
Defining Civic Tech by Concrete Actions
civic technologies bring
new tools to interact with the
life cycle of a public decision,
from the design of a new idea
to the results of its
implementation.
Information Mobilization
Representation
Decision
Evaluation

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Building Common Understanding
Defining Civic Tech by Stakeholders
CIVIC-TECH POL-TECH
GOV-TECH
‣ Gov Tech = when an
institution has the initiative.
‣ Pol Tech = when it is
related to political polling
and campaigning.
‣ Civic Tech = when civil
society organisations
create open source tools
to achieve a cause.
We need to focus on
building digital commons.

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Building Common Understanding
Defining Civic Tech by Technical Standards
‘’Code is Law’’
game
THE BLACK-BOX
OF E-DEMOCRACY
your
vote
collective
decision

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"Our choice is not between
‘regulation’ and ‘no regulation’. The
code regulates. It implements values,
or not. It enables freedoms, or
disables them. It protects privacy, or
promotes monitoring. People choose
how the code does these things.
People write the code. Thus the choice
is not whether people will decide how
cyberspace regulates. People—coders
—will. The only choice is whether we
collectively will have a role in their
choice—and thus in determining how
these values regulate—or whether
collectively we will allow the coders to
select our values for us.’’
Pr. Lawrence Lessig
Code is Law, 2000

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lunch

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PART II
DISCOVERING
INITIATIVES:
PRESENTATION
AND EXCHANGE
AROUND
EXISTING
PROJECTS

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Afternoon challenge
go online and
start a European Citizen Initiative
or contribute to the New Narrative for Europe.
Discovering Initiatives
Online Participation

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Discovering Initiatives
Improving Information
Towards real-time collaborative writing of our laws.

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Discovering Initiatives
Strengthening Mobilizations
Towards impact driven hacktivism.

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Discovering Initiatives
From Slacktivism to Hacktivism
The Civic Participation Learning Curve.
inspired by Audrey Tang
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Discovering Initiatives
Renewing Representation
Towards liquid democracy powered by proxy-voting.

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Discovering Initiatives
Making Better Decisions
Towards participatory decision making
and budgeting at every scale.

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Discovering Initiatives
Opening Access to Public Data
Towards fairer and more efficient public policies and services.

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Discovering Initiatives
Going Further
Sharing OpenGov initiatives and good practices worldwide.

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Conclusion
Civic Tech Did Not Prove Enough Yet
We still have to
‣ Find a sustainable business model
‣ Grow the French open source ecosystem
‣ Reconnect (with) citizens on every field
‣ Change the way politics is done
‣ Experiment liquid democracy with blockchain
applications

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Conclusion
How To Contribute
Take part in our next hackathon:
Nuit du Code citoyen, March 4-5 @SquareParis
‣ Follow the conversation:
‣ twitter.com/OpenSourcePol
‣ Join our events:
‣ meetup.com/Open-Source-Politics
‣ Read our articles:
‣ medium.com/Open-Source-Politics

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Conclusion
Danke Благодаря Hvala Gracias Tak
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Mulțumesc Ďakujem Hvala vam Tack Děkuji
Thank you
😊