Democracy in the Digital Era: Manifesto: Difference between revisions

The “Democracy in the Digital Era: Manifesto” emerged through contributions from about 100 carefully chosen young leaders (plus 1000 “Shadow Participants”) from almost 50 countries. Participants have collaborated for more than 4,000 person hours in face-to-face Structured Democratic Dialogues. They have collectively identified Shortcomings of current systems of governance that could be improved through technology, and proposed concrete Actions to address them. The dialogues were implemented in compliance with the emerging Science of Dialogic Design. The purpose of the process was to collectively discover key concepts and themes for drafting a Manifesto to guide future reforms. The 4-page Manifesto presented in pages 10-13 was scientifically grounded on extensive analysis of all data collected during the implementation of the five, weeklong, regional Structured Democratic Dialogues. Each regional process (separate Reports available) produced distinct Influence Maps with Challenges and respective Actions that could be undertaken to enhance democracy in the digital age. The analysis that led to the key concepts and themes of the Manifesto included also word/tag clouds, data mining and advanced visualization techniques, visual representations of the connection of topics of interest, multiple rounds of voting, term frequency analysis, clustering analysis and cluster prioritization, and Interpretive Structural Modeling (embedded in the Structured Democratic Dialogue Process).

The report has been developed in the context of the “Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era” Project (http://reinventdemocracy.info), which was funded by the United Nations Democracy Fund, and implemented by Future Worlds Center.