Despondent at how little citizens’ voices were being heard and how little impact the average person could have in the way society was being run, an Australian entrepreneur by the name of Adam Jacoby decided to stop moaning on Twitter and start doing something about it.

The result is MiVote, a voting platform, information platform, and political movement set on increasing the degree to which the will of people is being heard in Australian politics. Inspired by the success of Pia Mancini’s DemocracyOS and Partido De La Red in Argentina, MiVote has built a platform which was recently awarded the Grand Global Challenge Award at the Singularity University’s Global Innovation Summit (founded by the infamous Ray Kurzweil).

This is possibly the famous example of evolved democracy and citizen participation the world has ever seen. Following the country's dramatic financial crisis, some Icelandic citizens started what is perhaps the most ambitious attempt in neo-democracy the world has seen to date: to crowdsource a new constitution for the country by allowing anybody to join the process and sharing results with 100% transparency.

The result was a constitution accepted by almost 70% of the nation and deemed by many to be ‘enlightened’. Unfortunately the result was also an odd and obvious example of political gaming as the constitution was halted. But with new elections coming up, it seems the world’s first crowdsourced constitution could well be about to be made official.

I was lucky enough to interview the ‘CTO’ of this project and unpicked the process, trying to extract the principles and elements which could provide us with some tips and tricks for what the future of governance could look like.

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This is possibly the famous example of evolved democracy and citizen participation the world has ever seen. Following the country's dramatic financial crisis, some Icelandic citizens started what is perhaps the most ambitious attempt in neo-democracy the world has seen to date: to crowdsource a new constitution for the country by allowing anybody to join the process and sharing results with 100% transparency.

The result was a constitution accepted by almost 70% of the nation and deemed by many to be ‘enlightened’. Unfortunately the result was also an odd and obvious example of political gaming as the constitution was halted. But with new elections coming up, it seems the world’s first crowdsourced constitution could well be about to be made official.

I was lucky enough to interview the ‘CTO’ of this project and unpicked the process, trying to extract the principles and elements which could provide us with some tips and tricks for what the future of governance could look like.

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