Article archive: May 2015

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The D-CENT Freecoin Toolchain
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Writer: Marco Sachy, Dyne.org

The experimentation on the Digital Social Currency Pilots in D-CENT can be conceived as an open-source approach to decentralized complementary currency design, which becomes ever more relevant where pilot communities are already actively designing tools for collective engagement and decision making on monetary economic matters affecting their communities.

D-CENT is going to prototype the Freecoin Toolchain as a set of features that are apt to advance the state-of-the-art in two domains of social innovation: complementary currencies governance systems and decentralized trust management systems.

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Designing digital democracy: a short guide
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Writer: Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive at Nesta. The original article was published in the Nesta website.

I’ve written quite a few blogs and pieces on digital technology and democracy – most recently on the relevance of new-style political parties. [1]

Here I look at the practical question of how parliaments, assemblies and governments should choose the right methods for greater public engagement in decisions.

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Network Democracy for a better city Barcelona 5th May
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D-CENT’s Network Democracy for a better city event was organised in the 5th of May in Barcelona. The event explored how politics and political participation can be reinvented with concrete proposals to devolve greater control and power to citizens. We also presented network democracy tools and ideas for real participatory cities of the XXI century.

The programme (see in English here / Spanish here) included four panels and 24 speakers. The event attracted around 170 high-level policy makers, academics, activists, civic society organisations, and hackers together to debate.

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