CrowdLaw Communiqué: Spring Edition
A quarterly newsletter on open and participatory public-decisionmaking
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Designed for interested public officials, technologists, politicians and researchers, the CrowdLaw Communiqué features curated news, interviews, announcements, and recommended readings on the evolution of law and policymaking processes for the 21st century.
To share a story, please email us at crowdlaw@thegovlab.org
IN THIS ISSUE
1. From the CrowdLaw Blog
Legislature 2.0 by Beth Simone Noveck
CrowdLaw as a Tool for Open Governance by Mukelani Dimba
Transparency and Participation by Julia Keutgen
Legitimacy and the Quality of Lawmaking by José Luis Martí
2. The CrowdLaw Library
Curated selected readings on CrowdLaw
The Open Parliament in the Age of the Internet by Cristiano Ferri Faria (Free E-Book)
Not So Funny by Alexander Stille in the New York Review of Books
3. What We’re Watching
CrowdLaw Interviews featuring 18 global experts on CrowdLaw
NCCD “Tech Tuesday” call with Robert Bjarnason- Citizens Foundation, Iceland.
An interview with Beth Simone Noveck: Cristiano Ferri Faria interviews Beth Noveck on the present and future of participatory lawmaking
4. Announcements
Call for papers now open for CONSULCON 2018 in Madrid
Call for papers now open for the IOPD Conference in Barcelona
Cities for Life event on Thursday, May 10 in Brooklyn, NY
5. Follow
The CrowdLaw Twitter list
1. CROWDLAW BLOG
Legislature 2.0
By Beth Simone Noveck
Professor NYU and Director,
The Governance Lab
CrowdLaw: Transparency and Participation
By Julia Keutgen
Technical Advisor, Westminster Foundation for Democracy
CrowdLaw as a Tool for
Open Governance
By Mukelani Dimba
Co-Chair, Open Government Partnership
Legitimacy and the Quality of Lawmaking
By José Luis Martí
Professor of Law,
Pompeu Fabra University
2. CROWDLAW LIBRARY
- A curated list of ten recommended academic articles on CrowdLaw compiled by The GovLab.
- For more readings on crowdlaw, visit the Open Governance Research Exchange, a repository of selected publications on Open Governance, Open Data, Citizen Engagement and much more.
Not So Funny
Alexander Stille discusses FSM’s use and misuse of digital engagement tools
New York Review of Books (May 10, 2018)
Read the article here.
The Open Parliament in the Age of the Internet
By Cristiano Ferri Faria
Download the book here.
3. WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
CrowdLaw Interviews
Professor Victòria Alsina asked participants at the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored CrowdLaw conference in Bellagio, Italy in March 2018 about the impact of technology of lawmaking. Watch here.
Robert Bjarnason, Co-Founder of Iceland’s Citizens Foundation spoke with The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCCD) as part of their “Tech Tuesday” series to discuss how new open source tools and more democratic processes improve public participation in government. Watch the full video here.
Cristiano Ferri Faria, Director of the HackerLab in the Brazilian House of Deputies interviewed Professor Beth Simone Noveck about CrowdLaw and some of the challenges it faces. You can watch the full interview here.
4. ANNOUNCEMENTS
- CONSULCON18 is two days of collaborative work and technical conferences organized by Medialab-Prado around CONSUL, the largest participation platform in the world based on Ruby on Rails. The conference recently made an open call for papers to encourage those with participation experience or research related to CONSUL to share their story in Madrid. CONSULCON18 will take place in Madrid from November 22–24, 2018. To submit a proposal, click here.
- The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy will host its annual conference from November 26–28 in in Barcelona, Spain. This year’s conference is based on exploring citizen initiatives and direct democracy as ways of encouraging inclusive participation. To submit a proposal, click here.
- CARTO, RutaN and the Knowledge Economy Initiative have partnered to organize Cities for Life: Solving Urban Challenges Through Innovative Collaboration on Thursday, May 10. For more information and to register for the event, visit https://go.carto.com/cities-for-life
5. FOLLOW
- The GovLab created a Twitter list of the who’s who in the field of participatory lawmaking from around the world. Check out the list here!
- For more information about CrowdLaw, visit crowd.law and follow us on Twitter at @thegovlab and on Facebook at fb.com/thegovlab.
- To share a story, please email us at crowdlaw@thegovlab.org.
