CrowdLaw Communiqué Vol. 3 Fall 2018
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.orgIN THIS ISSUE
1. Announcements
- NEW! CrowdLaw Manifesto Launches!: Sign it now!
2. From the CrowdLaw Blog
- A hundred places where governments are using tech to crowdsource policy by Victòria Alsina Burgues, Senior Fellow, The GovLab.
- Citizen participation in law-making and public policy by Beth Simone Noveck, Director, The GovLab.
- CrowdLaw: Un vitamínico para la democracia by by Victòria Alsina Burgues, Senior Fellow, The GovLab.
3. Papers and Reports
- Curated Selected Readings on CrowdLaw.
- CrowdLaw Bibliography on the Open Governance Research Exchange.
- “Citizens’ Draft Bills for the Strengthening of Open Government Principles through the Collaborative Development of Laws” by Marco Konopacki, Debora Albu, Fabro Steibel and Victor Vicente.
- “Shaping Legislation Together: Human-centered approaches in the legislative context”: An expert report by Caroline Paulick-Thiel for Unit 133 (Bureaucracy Reduction Office) in the German Federal Chancellery, Berlin.
- “The simple but ingenious system Taiwan uses to crowdsource its law”, by Chris Horton in the MIT Technology Review.
4. Conferences and Events
- “The Future of Democracy” lecture series hosted by New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge and The GovLab.
- “Designing collective intelligence: Mobilising humans and machines to address social needs”: A day of talks, workshops and discussions co-hosted by NESTA and SAGE publishing in London on September 17, 2018.
- “Reworks Agora”: A one-day, cross-thematic forum in Greece on September 16, 2018 that features keynote speakers, discussions, musical performances and screening by leading experts and pioneers in the creative economy, culture, technology and contemporary thinking. One of the three international launch locations of the CrowdLaw Manifesto!
5. Follow
1. ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEW! CrowdLaw Manifesto Launches
In the spirit of the International Day of Democracy, The GovLab is launching The CrowdLaw Manifesto — a set of 12 principles to promote the use of CrowdLaw by local legislatures and national parliaments, calling for legislatures, technologists and the public to participate in creating more open and participatory lawmaking practices.
Click here to read and sign the manifesto
2. CROWDLAW BLOG
A Hundred Places Where Governments Are Using Tech To Crowdsource Policy
By Victòria Alsina Burgués
Senior Fellow, The GovLab
Citizen Participation in Law-making and Public Policy
By Beth Simone Noveck
Director, The Governance Lab
CrowdLaw: Un Vitmínico para la democracia
Published in El Pais
By Victòria Alsina Burgués
Senior Fellow, The GovLab
3. PAPERS AND REPORTS
- 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.
- “Citizens’ Draft Bills for the Strengthening of Open Government Principles through the Collaborative Development of Laws” by Marco Konopacki, Debora Albu, Fabro Steibel and Victor Vicente.
- “Shaping Legislation Together: Human-centered approaches in the legislative context”: An expert report by Caroline Paulick-Thiel for Unit 133 (Bureaucracy Reduction Office) in the German Federal Chancellery, Berlin.
- “The simple but ingenious system Taiwan uses to crowdsource its law”, by Chris Horton in the MIT Technology Review.
4. CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
- “The Future of Democracy”: A lecture series brought to you by the GovLab and the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University launches next week and will feature the likes of Audrey Tang (Digital Minister, Taiwan), Geoff Mulgan (CEO, NESTA) and a conversation between Josep Luis Marti (Pompeu Fabra University) and Cesar Hidalgo (MIT Media Lab).
- “Designing collective intelligence: Mobilising humans and machines to address social needs”: A day of talks, workshops and discussions co-hosted by NESTA and SAGE publishing in London on September 17, 2018.
- “Reworks Agora”: A one-day, cross-thematic forum in Greece on September 16, 2018 that features keynote speakers, discussions, musical performances and screening by leading experts and pioneers in the creative economy, culture, technology and contemporary thinking. One of the three international launch locations of the CrowdLaw Manifesto!
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 @thegovlab and on Facebook at fb.com/thegovlab.
- To share a story, please email us at crowdlaw@thegovlab.org
