Discovering eDemocracy and in-depth preview of

M5S Electronic Parliament (legal aspects)

ICAIL 2013: XIV International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Davide Barillari, Rome, 06/10/013

None of us can know everything, but together we are able to know everything.

It does not exist a problem that has no solution... if we unite our minds to solve it.

DEVELOPING COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

Collective intelligence (aka Symbiotic intelligence) is a theory that describes a type of shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals

TOGETHER WE CAN FIND THE BETTER SOLUTION

The collective intelligence has to involve ALL the citizens, without regard to individual intelligence, experience, skills, relationships with other groups or individuals. Not only by vote (online voting, polls, ..). Not only by discussions (forums, blogs, social networks..). Discussing problems before voting raises awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of the opportunities and risks, and allows people to evaluate alternatives and suggest others. This shared common view is not altered by social hierarchies and inequalities of knowledge.

eDEMOCRACY IS HERE

E-democracy (a combination of the words electronic and democracy) is the use of information and communications technologies and strategies by 'democratic sectors' within the political processes of local communities, states/regions, nations and on the global stage.

E-democracy means direct democracy, based on collective intelligence.

M5S wants to exceed the current limits of representative democracy, trying to engage citizens in the full legislative process (for the first time in Italy).

HOW ?

Since summer 2012 a WORK TEAM (called “gruppo connettivita' M5S Lazio”) is working to evaluate the major edemocracy and online voting tools (liquid feedback, openDCN, airesis, …).

We have involved for the first time in a regional context a segment of the population to write a highly participated and shared program for political elections. 500 users joined the writing process, suggesting more than 400 proposals in less than 2 months. These proposals, result of collective intelligence, were modified, enhanced and amended on the net. At the end all the proposals were voted by thousands of citizens, and then included into the 2013 regional elections.

TEST DONE!POSITIVE FEEDBACK

Now it's time for a big jump into the future of edemocracy...

Tavolo di lavoro

What is LIQUID FEEDBACK

LiquidFeedback is an open-source software, powering internet platforms for proposition development and decision making.

It introduces a new communication channel between voters and representatives, delivers reliable results about what the participants want and can be used for information, suggestion, or directive depending on the organizational needs and the national legislation.

Users can write a proposal and discuss it with all the other users.All users can modify the original proposal, and the more “appreciated” suggested enhancements are voted.At the end, we have the better solution built with the contribution of all the users.

Main question: crowdsourcing to create laws

Is it possible for people to be able to write their own laws?

...our step beyond the Pillars of Hercules...

We modified the code of LiquidFeedback.

We expanded its core.We enhanced user interface, security,

functions, data integrity, internal editing...and more !

The project is called “PARLAMENTO ELETTRONICO” (electronic parliament): it's now in alpha state and it will be released internally this summer.

Any normal citizen can now write its own law, in a standard format with legal checks, share it with the net and then bring it directly in the legislature thanks to M5S representatives.

WE ARE READY. It will be Italy ?WE ARE READY. It will be Italy ?

M5S ELECTRONIC PARLIAMENT - RELEASE 1.0 PREVIEW

M5S ELECTRONIC PARLIAMENT - RELEASE 1.0 PREVIEW

M5S ELECTRONIC PARLIAMENT -legal aspects

The M5S Electronic Parliament integrates in its internal editor (AT4AM) the open format AKOMA NTOSO.

The AT4AM editor has been enhanced for more usability with Liquid Feedback.

AKOMA NTOSO

DOCUMENT FORMAT ADOPTED BY ITALIAN SENATE since February 013 as common standard for parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents.

All the bills published on the Italian Senate website are available, other than in the usual HTML, PDF, and ePub formats, also in XML, using an Akoma Ntoso compliant scheme.The Italian Senate, in the wake of the European Parliament, has also joined the growing number of parliaments supporting Akoma Ntoso as common to support more effective management of information and long-term preservation of formal documentation.

Akoma Ntoso is the result of the efforts of the Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan to realize a common standard for the interchange of legal documents among institutions and countries. Building on the opportunities offered by open standards, it aims at supporting the development of high-value parliamentary and legislative information services.

http://www.akomantoso.org M5S ELECTRONIC PARLIAMENT USES AKOMA NTOSO COMMON STANDARD

TO WRITE LAWS(in collaboration with University of Bologna)

AT4AM for All

AT4AM for All is the free / open source release of AT4AM, the web-based amendment authoring tool used at the European Parliament.

AT4AM is the web-based amendment authoring tool used with great success at the European Parliament since February 2010 by Members and their assistants, and advisors of the political groups to create and table amendments on the proposals of the European Commission and the Council of the European Union, and the reports of the parliamentary committees.AT4AM is the first system of the future XML-based workflow of amendments at the European Parliament.Compared to the previous Word-based system, the great benefits of AT4AM are a much better quality of the amendments, and an easier and faster process of creating, sharing, tabling, registering, ordering and verifying amendments focused on content and no more on formatting.

http://www.at4am.orgM5S ELECTRONIC PARLIAMENT

USES AT4AM EDITOR TO AMEND LAWS

THE TIME FOR eDEMOCRACY IS ARRIVED

We are approaching a new golden time for our democracy, cause we are going to return the power to the people.

Really.

Political movements that do not have the courage to resign their hierarchical structures, do not involve all their electors in all the decisional processes, or do not pursue collective interests, will extinguish in a short time.

Boosting Collective Intelligence

JOIN THE REVOLUTION!

Connect with us via Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/discussione.parlamento.m5slazio

Connect with us via Email:dbarillari@regione.lazio.it, emanuele.sabetta@gmail.com

Join the developers team via Github:https://github.com/Movimento5StelleLazio/ParlamentoElettronicoM5S/wiki

Boosting Collective Intelligence

More details about the project:http://digitaldividemilano.com/connettivita-italia/parlamento-elettronico/

Progetto Parlamento Elettronico REGIONALE del M5S v0.15 https://pdfzen.com/26b80e