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Topic 24 of 52: open source democracy - led by the Dutch

Sat, May 20, 2000 (07:15) | Spring Virtual Community (sprin5)
OPEN SOURCE DEMOCRACY: A Dutch-led research consortium has put in
a bid for European funding to develop non-proprietary, open-
source software for large-scale democratic debate, potentially
supporting discussion by more than a million participants at a
time.

The ISSUE consortium, led by the Dutch new media company Spirit,
has entered the proposal under the European Commission's 5th
Framework for research and technological development, which
includes a specific programme for a user-friendly information
society.

The proposal includes plans for industry-led technical research
and development combined with research by social psychologists
and political scientists; test beds in Rotterdam, Belfast
(supporting the peace process), Nuremberg and Vienna, with a
working prototype planed by year two of the project; and all
research to be 'open source' and Linux-based (although some
business prospects are also expected).

A spokesman told E-Government Bulletin: "We feel that there is
mileage to be had from getting people sharing ideas, experiences
and software to counter the inevitable attempts by proprietary
software developers to control this market. ISSUE will have an
impact on professional lobbyists, on pressure groups (one is
never certain if they have the public backing they claim to
have), and on the discussion about referenda." See:
http://www.issue.spirit.nl [Courtesy Dan Jellinek ]

From: _/ B y t e s F o r A l l --- http://www.bytesforall.org
_/ Making Computing Relevant to The Common (Wo)man MAY2000
_/ Editors: Frederick Noronha (India) Partha Sarkar (Bangladesh)
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2 responses total.


 Topic 24 of 52 [vc]: open source democracy - led by the Dutch
 Response 1 of 2: Spring Virtual Community (sprin5) * Thu, Jun  1, 2000 (08:36) * 1 lines

Wonder what's the latest on this?


 Topic 24 of 52 [vc]: open source democracy - led by the Dutch
 Response 2 of 2: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Sun, Jun  4, 2000 (00:20) * 1 lines

Never heard of it - do you think Google.com or Northernlight.com can tell us anything?! I'll search for it.

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