Demos for Democracy, featuring DemocracyOS

The GovLab presents Demos for Democracy, an ongoing series of live, interactive online demos featuring designers and builders of the latest innovative governance platforms, tools or methods to foster greater openness and collaboration to how we govern.

“DemocracyOS: upgrading democracy for the Internet era”

On December 4, 2014 we had a conversation with Pia Mancini about DemocracyOS, a user-friendly, open-source, vote and debate tool, crafted for parliaments, parties and decision-making institutions that will allow citizens to get informed, join the conversation and vote on topics, just how they want their representatives to vote. A tool designed to transform the noise we create during protests into a signal that has a clear, direct and strong impact on the political system. Their vision is that DemocracyOS will become the operating system of a more open and participatory government.

What: Watch our video to find out what DemocracyOS is, how it works, the process of its design and how can the platform be used for social good.

More About Pia: Pia Mancini is a Political Scientist and Director of Net Democracy, a foundation that proposes a space where citizens can meet to imagine, design and implement innovations on the political system that open up democracy’s bandwidth. She is also a peer and co-founder of The Net Party, The XLab Fellow, Former Chief of Advisors Deputy Secretary of Political Affairs, Government of the City of Buenos Aires. Author of Art Bits.