--MIchel Bauwens (talk) 04:25, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Key Citations

"Cleisthenis’ Demos was imagined as the State itself; as an active community of citizens in which the political sphere, the economy, the State and civil society all co-existed within the Assembly: Democracy was about the Demos getting (physically) together and engaging in a contest of opinions about what ought to be done. The point of the exercise was not to stage a process whereby the rulers consult the people but one in which the people rule."

- Yanis Varoufakis [1]

Key Resources

• The Meta-government project: http://www.metagovernment.org/wiki/Map

Key Articles

• #mustread: Can the Internet democratise capitalism?. By Yanis Varoufakis.

Key Books

• * Book: Democratizing Democracy: Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon (Reinventing Social Emancipation) Paperback. by Boaventura De Sousa. Verso, 2007.

Key Conferences

• 2014 conferences and events covering the intersection of technology and civic engagement, public participation, dialogue and deliberation, conflict resolution, open government and related areas. [2]

Key Organizations

New democracy Organizations and initiatives [http://equalitybylot.wordpress.com/organizations-and-initiatives/

• The Jefferson Center St. Paul, MN, has conducted Citizen Juries since 1974 and is one of the oldest such organizations. [3]

• newDemocracy Foundation Royal Exchange, Australia, is a non-profit with the aim of promoting deliberative and participatory democracy, especially through the use of sortition [4]

• The Co-Intelligence Institute Eugene, OR, brainchild of Tom Atlee an advocate of deliberative, participatory democracy through the use of citizen panels and sortition. [5]

• Sortition 2013 An e-petition started by Adam Scarborough in Scotland, with the aim of instituting a (semi)direct democracy through sortition. [6]

• G1000 An experiment tried in 2011-2012 in Belgium with a Ctitizens’ Summit and Citizens’ Panels all using sortition to “do better than politicians” [7]

• Plan C Is Etienne Chouard’s platform of sortition, constitutional reform, and referenda to create “real democracy” in France [8]

• Ordinary People Is a UK political party organized with the aim of instituting a Citizens Parliament [9]

Look for updates via http://equalitybylot.wordpress.com/organizations-and-initiatives/