--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]