Pots, Pans and Other Solutions

I feel that the context and process described by some of the people interviewed in this documentary seems to correspond somewhat to an intentional approach I d like to support with a shared narrative process aided by a linked-data interface :

“Political Parties give the opportunity to people not to think by themselves”

“Political Parties and politicians maintain their own interests”

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/iceland-after-the-meltdown-what-we-can-learn-from-their-realdemocracy-movement/2012/07/24

“In Iceland, the first European country to wake up to an economic crash, people became aware that they could and should intervene in society and started demanding more democratic participation. The payment of bank debts by citizens went to referendum. The government was forced to create a Council to write a new constitution: a citizens’ group – without politicians, lawyers or university professors – who opened the discussion process to everybody and managed to approve by consensus a draft proposal.”

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