Project iDemocracy

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URL = http://www.idemocrazia.it/

Description

Matteo Martini:

"I would like to propose an internet-based system (the “I-Democracy” system) which is intended to remove as much as possible the above problems and to change the way the voters can participate in the writing of a political program:


1. by allowing each voter to delegate his/her representation to one or more people in order to work on the writing of the political program above, with some sharp differences with the current representative democratic system that the delegation above a) can be recalled at any moment, b) is meant to be given to people known personally, c) can be suspended at any moment by the voter for one or more votes, thereby by-passing the delegation given, and d) can be given to different people for different government areas (defense, economy, environment, education, research, etc.);

2. allowing the voter to directly propose and vote on single laws or packages of laws (political programs)

Using the internet, it is possible today to create a system that allows the citizen-voter to directly participate in the creation of a political program for the government. In detail, the scope of the proposed internet system is that of a virtual environment where every voter, after getting registered, is able to propose and vote on laws or packages of laws…" (http://equalitybylot.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/i-democracy/)