Videos
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Interview with Baki Youssoufou
Interview with Baki Youssoufou, founder and CEO of the platform We Sign, as part of the Democratic Cities event 23-28 May, Madrid, Spain. Youssoufou is the spokes’ person of “Active Generation” a global web activists network created during the Tunisian revolution and a member of “Africtivistes” the African web activists network. He is very active in Nuit Debout in the communication commission.
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#3 Democracy Lab Madrid (25 May 2016)
Video stream of the Day 3 of the five-day Democracy Lab, taking place as part of the Democratic Cities event in Madrid, Spain. Organised on the 23–28 May, the event is the biggest European event on network democracy, new forms of citizen participation, digital tools for democratic participation and urban commons for democratic cities. The five-day Democracy Lab (23–27 May) consists of workshops, hackathons, unconference and open sessions.
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#2 Democracy Lab Madrid (24 May 2016)
Video stream of the Day 2 of the five-day Democracy Lab, taking place as part of the Democratic Cities event in Madrid, Spain. Organised on the 23–28 May, the event is the biggest European event on network democracy, new forms of citizen participation, digital tools for democratic participation and urban commons for democratic cities. The five-day Democracy Lab (23–27 May) consists of workshops, hackathons, unconference and open sessions.
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#1 Democracy Lab Madrid (23 May 2016)
Video stream of the Day 1 of the five-day Democracy Lab, taking place as part of the Democratic Cities event in Madrid. Organised on the 23–28 May, the event is the biggest European event on network democracy, new forms of citizen participation, digital tools for democratic participation and urban commons for democratic cities. The five-day Democracy Lab (23–27 May) consists of workshops, hackathons, unconference and open sessions.
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Interview: Francesca Bria, Nesta
How technology is being used to help facilitate direct democracy and citizen engagement? Francesca Bria from the Nesta UK Innovation lab is the coordinator of the European-wide D-CENT project. D-CENT (Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies) develops next generation digital tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment.
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Interview: Denis “Jaromil“ Roio, Dyne.org
As part of the D-CENT project, Dyne.org has developed Freecoin, a set of free and open source tools to let people run reward schemes that are transparent and auditable to other organisations. In this interview, Jaromil Roio of Dyne.org talks about his work on commons, trust, complementary currencies and Freecoin.
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Interview: Natalie Eskinazi, ThoughtWorks
D-CENT allows people to discuss and share content, engage in mass scale deliberation, collaborative policymaking, and voting. Learn more about our tools from software developer Natalie Eskinazi, ThoughtWorks.
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Interview: Pablo Aragon
As part of the D-CENT project, Pablo Aragón (Eurecat) has done data analysis on new organizational models from emerging citizen movements to provide inputs for the design and development of the D-CENT tools and technologies.
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Interview: Pablo Soto
Interview with Pablo Soto, a Councillor for Citizen Participation, Transparency and Open Government, City of Madrid.
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Interview: Róbert Bjarnason
Róbert Bjarnason from the Citizens Foundation (one of the D-CENT project partners) talks about the tools for democratic participation and participatory budgeting they have been developing and piloting in Iceland.
