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Cabildo Abierto

Dec 1 '10

Author:
Aaron Montenegro, Trevor Evans
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Citizens' Reference Panel

Jul 18 '12

Author:
Robert Richards
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Communities Creating Racial Equity Initiative

Jun 4 '10

Author:
Ashley
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Crowdsourcing

Dec 7 '10

Author:
Isaac Horwith
Crowdsourcing is a new phenomenon in which an organization calls upon both professionals and amateurs on the internet to help solve a problem, design a product, or analyze large amounts of data at a lower cost and often greater quality and speed than through conventional research and development methods.
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Direct Democracy

Dec 8 '10

Author:
Paul Nollen
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Democracy
Democracy was invented in the ancient city of Athens by Cleisthenes about 2,500 years ago. In Greek, ‘Demos’ means ‘the people of the community’; ‘Kratos’ means ‘power’ or ‘authority to decide’. ‘Demos-kratia’ (Demokratia) means ‘a community run by all its members’.
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