"Title","Author","Summary","Body","Date posted","Country","Ongoing","Start Date","End Date","","Staff Type","","","","","","","","","Facilitation?"
"Direct Democracy SA (""Never again vote for a 5 year dictator"")","Jim Powell","To educate the voters that there is an alternative to the current system","Note:  This article is in need of assistance with content and editing.  Please help us compete it.SummaryDirect Democracy SA is an attempt to reform the South African electoral system by using citizen advocacy to convince currently elected politicans to...","Wed, 12/28/2011 - 09:21","United States","No","","","Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems)","","","","","","","","","","No"
"Federal Community Cabinets (Australia)","qmayne",""," Note: This article is in need of assistance with editing and content. Moreover, it may be that this article should be included in the ""methods"" section, as it is more a description of a method than it is a detailed summary of how the method was used....","Tue, 04/24/2012 - 14:21","Australia","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"
"Globplex e-Région Province d'Essaouira (Français)","Paul Nollen","Plateforme Interactive sur chaque Sujet, Secteur et Territoire de la Globplex-DataBank
Pages et Fichiers connexes avec actualisation permanente
et possibilités d'interaction en temps réel de la part des visiteurs.
Lecture ouverte à tous, sauf autres indications.
Possibilités d'interventions instantanées avec le Glob-Key Personnel, dûment installé et connecté.
","Note:  This article is in need of assistance with editing and content.  Please help us complete it.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Problems and Purpose History Originating Entities and Funding...","Wed, 01/11/2012 - 09:13","Morocco","Yes","","","","","","","","","Globplex","Regional (e.g. State, Province, Autonomous Region)","","","No"
"Law-making 2.0 by Wikivote (Russia)","yarmakhov","In April 2010 Wikivote was approached by the Russian Ministry of Education with a request to develop a crowdsourcing platform for evaluating and editing the draft for the new Law on Education. This task was fulfilled according to the approach discussed above. For testing the model we used the chapter ""General education"". Our goal was to invite Russian experts, teachers and parents to an in-depth analysis of the Law, evaluating and discussing its overall concept and items, soliciting ideas for improving statements of the law and making new suggestions.

The Law on Education is a major discussion  issue in the Russian political life. The quality of education in Russia is one of the major concerns as the vast majority of Russian families have K-12 students. Most discussed issues, such as mandatory graduation testing, religious education and deteriorating quality of public school education are highly debated. We assumed that the community for discussing the subject is very broad and set no limitations on age, affiliation or status of participants. Our approach to lawmaking is quite different from the existing practice, in which access to creating and making amendments to laws is granted only to a very limited group of ""experts"", whose expertise is mainly based only to their proximity to the governing bodies. This corresponds with previous research which showed that maximum results are received in crowdsourcing campaigns where certain level of the participants' knowledge of the field is combined with their diversity.

The text of the draft Law was decomposed into 11 articles and 71 items. Each item became a subject to discussion and improvement.  Each item of the Law was posted on the site as a separate page. Upon registration users could make a vote in favor or against the draft, comment on it or suggest their own versions, which was done as a result of saving a previously edited version of an item under the user's name. User created item versions were also commented and evaluated.

Then, potential participants were invited, for which purpose we used expert mailing lists and social networks. We did not try to solicit a vast number of potential contributors; a right balance between the number, expertise and diversity of the ""crowd"" was essential. During the testing period in May - August 2010 512 users joined the community and participated in discussing and evaluating the Law. This number proved to be quite adequate for the targeted goals, as larger number of participants could negatively affect the service performance.","Note:  This article is in need of assistance with editing and content.  Please help us complete it.Summary In 2010, the Russian Ministry of Education asked Wikivote to develop a crowdsource platform for evaluating and editing the draft of the new Law on...","Mon, 12/26/2011 - 16:26","Russia","No","","","Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems)","","","National Government","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers)","Open to all","Wikivote ","National","National Government","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit)","No"
"Multi-option Referendums: The Cases of Puerto Rico and Newfoundland","Paul Nollen","Multi option referendums have often been discussed in relation to referendums on ethnic and national issues. There have been relatively high profile referendums with several options in Sweden, e.g. in 1955 when three pension systems were put to a vote and in 1980, when the future of Nuclear Energy was decided in a three-option referendum. But multi-option referendums have also been discussed in relation to the referendum on independence or ‘devolution max’ (independence but with the same currency and foreign policy) in Scotland.","Problems and Purpose History Originating Entities and Funding Participant Selection Deliberation, Decisions, and Public Interaction Influence, Outcomes, and Effects Analysis and Criticism Secondary Sources External Linkshttp://www.cps.org.uk/blog/q/date/...","Tue, 01/24/2012 - 06:30","United States","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"
"New South Wales Public Deliberation on Electricity Generation","Xion Salamander","The New South Wales Public Deliberative process was a citizens' policy jury tasked with deciding appropriate forms of energy generation in New South Wales. Funded by the newDemocracy foundation, the citizens policy jury convened in two locations of 45 participants: one was located in Sydney and the other in Tamworth.","Problems and PurposeThe objective of the Citizens' Jury on Energy Economics and Security for New South Wales for the Public Accounts Committee of the NSW Parliament was  to agree on an order of preference, barriers to adoption (including financial...","Tue, 12/11/2012 - 20:21","Australia","No","","","Budgeting, Science & Technology, Other","","","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit), Other","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers)","Random Selection","","Regional (e.g. State, Province, Autonomous Region)","","Individual","Yes"
"PartecipAttivaMente Politiche Giovanili Attive (Italian)","fedele congedo","PartecipAttivamente è un percorso partecipato sviluppato dal Comune di Galatina e facilitato da Città Fertile. Promuove una rete di contatti che gravitano attorno agli spazi urbani, per implementare e sollecitare idee ed azioni rivolte ai giovani, perchè siano attivatori della partecipazione.  
Scambi di idee, reti di collaborazione, ascolto di esperienze e progetti per lo sviluppo degli spazi urbani. Nella consapevolezza che le nuove tecnologie ed i media hanno di fatto cambiato i metodi e i tempi della partecipazione e della rappresentanza democratica, non più solo verticale, dentro i tradizionali partiti politici e nei sindacati, ma orizzontale, diffusa e informale, con gruppi di supporto per campagne e cause, lungo canali di comunicazione non tradizionali e immediati. PartecipAttivaMente è un evento in divenire. Pur svolgendosi in un luogo fisico definito, utilizza questi stessi canali digitali, a disposizione di tutti.","","Wed, 12/21/2011 - 16:42","Italy","No","","","Education & Schools, Higher Education & Lifelong Learning","","","","","","","Regional (e.g. State, Province, Autonomous Region)","","","No"
"The Second Constitution of the United States: A new and improved draft for the 21st century","Thomas Wright Sulcer","This proposed replacement aims to keep the best of the current Constitution (e.g. checks and balances, divided government) but with substantial improvements (e.g. foreign policy architecture, citizenship, rotation of offices.) My purpose in proposing an alternative is (1) to demonstrate that an improved Constitution is possible and (2) encourage leading thinkers to collaborate to draft an even better version and (3) to have the best version ratified by the American people. I have tried my best to make it nonpartisan. This document is public domain. Feel free to copy it without attribution. Sections have been copied from the current US Constitution. -- tom sulcer December 21, 2011","Note:  This article is need of assistance with content and editing.  Please help us complete it.SummaryThis is a proposed revision of the United States Constitution which aims to improve the current Constitution in areas such as foreign policy...","Wed, 12/21/2011 - 14:09","United States","No","","","Human Rights, Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice, & Corrections, Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems)","","","","","","","","","","No"
"UK's Virtual Parliament","wenger1989","The Virtual Parliament is a not for profit UK website that allows the general public to vote on policy ideas and suggest their own. ","Problems and PurposeIt encourages two way conversations between policy creators and the public that results in enhanced policies and a bettter informed public.HistoryThe Virtual Parliament is a not for profit UK website that allows the general public to...","Fri, 02/24/2012 - 20:08","United States","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"