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Decentralised C itizen Engagement Technologies

Francesca Bria @francesca_bria

Technology for 21st century democracy

What is Democracy in the XXI century?

• How can we design together the new democratic

institutions best suited to next generation democracy -

• pen, experimental, and able to tap into collective

intelligence of citizens?

• W hat is the 21st century politics can help to engage millions
• f people currently disenfranchised, and to provide them

with ways to directly influence ideas and decisions?

• The new generation of digital natives has lost hope in the

political system that seem no longer able to provide visions for the future. Big movements towards transparency and against corruption

Podemos- The rise of Netw ork Parties

Spanish socio- political context

2011 15M mobilization of empowered citizens (15M) 2012 New social ecosystem (Mareas) 2014 Institutional mobilization (EU elections) 2015 Institutional consolidation (Local elections)

5SM- online direct democracy

C itizens Initiatives

C

• nstitutional Referendums

Economic Justice- participatory budgeting

60 ML Euros partecipatory budgeting Madrid

D- C ENT…

• … D-CEN T builds on Europe’s largest experiments in direct

democracy – the O pen Ministry crowdsourcing site linked into parliament in Finland; the e-democracy website Better Reykjavik in Iceland; Podemos, the new bottom-up spanish political movement and the municipal citizen coalitions Barcelona en Comù and Ahora Madrid.

• help social movements developing next generation of of public,

federated, privacy-aware architectures and tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment

• … grows long-term alternatives to today’s highly centralised

platforms and power structures and promote … provide a positive vision of collective intelligence in democracyin the XXI century

What does D- C ENT do?

The D-CEN T tools enable citizens to be informed and get real-time notifications about issues that matter to them; propose and draft solutions and policy colla- boratively; decide and vote on solutions and collective municipal budgeting; and finally implement and reward people with blockchain reward schemes.

An Ecosystem of open source democracy tools: for movements, C ities, political parties, Parliaments

D- C ENT tools in action

• Barcelona: Participation platform

https://barcelonaencomu.cat/ca

• Reykjavik: Participatory budgeting platform

http://reykjavik.is/betrihverfi

• Helsinki: Tracking municipal policy

decisions, taking action

https://decisions.dcentproject.eu

• Madrid: Open consultation and direct

democracy platform

https://decide.madrid.es

Why use D- C ENT?

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 610349.