#democracy

Rebel Cities 20: With #Hip-Hop As Sound Track, Young Senegalese Say Enough Is Enough | Occupy.com
▻https://www.occupy.com/article/rebel-cities-20-with-hip-hop-sound-track-young-senegalese-say-enough-enough

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“The leaders hang on to the power

In spite of the opposition of the population.

Politicians are all the same, no difference.

Only broken promises and lies.

We are fed up of your nonsense,

We really need change.”

These are the lyrics of #Senegal hip hop artist Keur Gui in the 2014 song “Diogoufi,” which means “Nothing has changed.” The group is active in political organizing, walking the talk of their lyrics. In 2011, its leading vocalists were at the forefront of the Senegal #Y’en_A_Marre (“We Are Fed Up”), founded in the capital #Dakar alongside other artists, academics and activists.

#Politic #democracy #municipalism

Tom Atlee’s Review(s) of ‘Designing Regenerative Cultures’
▻https://hackernoon.com/tom-atlees-review-s-of-designing-regenerative-cultures-6093266d681f?sour

A JOURNEY INTO THE JUICY COMPLEXITY OF REGENERATIVE CULTUREThank you so much for this wonderfully honest review of how Designing Regenerative Cultures landed within you. I am deeply grateful you gave it time and hope the book with remain useful to you. Lots of love, DanielI knew a lot about regenerative #culture before I opened this book. I knew how it differs from sustainability (although I actually see #regeneration as fundamental to true sustainability; it’s just that mainstream views of sustainability don’t recognize that). But I’ve now learned that what I knew is clearly only a beginning. So I’ve ended up writing two parallel reviews, a new adventure for me… Here’s my first one:1.I have not finished this book. I was waiting until I finished it to write a review. But now I realize that my (...)

#books #democracy #design

Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy (https...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7986792

Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy | #democracy #disaster #blockchain #elections

The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can ...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7734905

The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do - A memo to big tech | #portability #microsoft #facebook #amazon #regulation #takeslash #bigdata #GAFAM #interoperability #mentalhealth #google #apple #democracy #technology #monopoly

Between “democracy” and “illiberalism”, what else ?

Is democracy doomed to lose its liberal core? | Eurozine
▻https://www.eurozine.com/democracy-doomed-lose-liberal-core

But there is evidence of mounting illiberal temptations in the industrialized world, in democratic societies. Are these temptations linked with temporary phenomena, in the ‘extraordinary times’ we are living through, or do they have deeper roots? An answer to this question begs an examination of trends in society and economy, of the emergence of new (unconventional) threats, and, not least, of failed public policies. The argument that ‘liberal democracy’ is on the wane is wrong to the extent that policies can be corrected, that citizens and elites alike do not lose trust in democratic values. It may also be true that, although democracy has a ‘liberal core’, it can also be driven by ‘illiberal’ components, and that the magnitude of the latter can vary. But for democracy to survive , its liberal core must be preserved.

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Who needs democracy when you have data? (▻https://www.technologyrevi...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7599703

Who needs democracy when you have data? | #justice #politics #surveillance #governance #technology #democracy #SocialCreditScore #automation #data #bigdata

Centralized vs Decentralized Platform for Political or Public Influence
▻https://hackernoon.com/centralized-vs-decentralized-platform-for-political-or-public-influence-

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Centralized vs Decentralized PlatformOnce hyped as the tool that would free the people from dictatorship by providing all with a platform to air their opinion and organize resistance, Facebook’s appearance in the News lately has, increasingly often, been linked with breaches of privacy, with the wholesale distribution of fake news or as a tool used to exert undue foreign or domestic influence on democratic #elections.Though Facebook statistics are routinely used to measure participation and vote intentions, as well as a channel to influence #politics, its reliability for such purposes is questionable. Transparency and privacy issues coupled with the determinedly profit based model of Facebook does not make it a reliably neutral vehicle for opinions.Facebook algorithms and general (...)

#democracy #voting

De Paris à Washington, les sociétés du CAC 40 ont dépensé au moins 60 millions d’euros pour influencer les politiques - Basta !
►https://www.bastamag.net/De-Paris-a-Washington-les-societes-du-CAC-40-ont-depense-au-moins-60-milli

Combien les groupes du CAC 40 dépensent-ils en lobbying auprès des centres de décision – parlements, congrès, cabinets ministériels... – à Paris, Bruxelles ou Washington ? S’ils restent incomplets, les chiffres déclarés par ces grandes entreprises auprès des registres officiels de lobbying en donnent une première idée. Plongée dans ces millions déboursés pour influencer la décision politique, en avant-goût du premier « Contre-rapport annuel » sur les grandes entreprises françaises que l’Observatoire des multinationales publiera dans quelques semaines.

#lobbying #CAC40 #democracy_not_found (error404)

New interview with Richard Stallman on goblinrefuge.com (▻https://go...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7134728

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New interview with Richard Stallman on goblinrefuge.com

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#surveillance #stallman #interview #video #democracy #statecontrol #backdoor #US #election #fsf #gnu #4freedoms

How #agora Will Use #blockchain to Bring True #democracy to the World
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-agora-will-use-blockchain-to-bring-true-democracy-to-the-world-2b231

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It seems that our world is entering a very dangerous time. Regardless of one’s political views, it is impossible to ignore the growing dangers stemming from modernization. With the increased presence of technology in everyday life, governments are able to intrude on personal privacy through internet histories, social media, cell phone data and more.China recently made news by announcing the implementation of a “social capital” system, which consists of digitally tracked data points that will determine the liberties one will have in day-to-day life.However, technology can also be used to improve popular rule, rather than threaten it, and one blockchain start-up is committed to this idea. Agora, a project spun out of EPFL’s Swiss Lab for Digital Democracy, has created a blockchain voting (...)

#blockchain-democracy #politics

President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph #Kabila will not contest in the December 2018 #elections - he intends to hand over power.
▻http://www.africanews.com/2018/02/05/kabila-ready-to-handover-power-set-to-name-successor-in-july #democracy #Africa #Congo #Zaïre #Afrique #démocratie #élections #transition #succession #DRC

A Guide to Russia’s High Tech Tool Box for Subverting US Democracy

(and not so high tech as well). One doesn’t need to fully control the ballot boxes to destabilise a country. Simply erode the population’s trust in the government and its institutions and you’re pretty much done.

▻https://www.wired.com/story/a-guide-to-russias-high-tech-tool-box-for-subverting-us-democracy

#democracy #propaganda

Wie Flüchtlinge unser Land verändern (►http://www.sueddeutsche.de...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/5986727

Wie Flüchtlinge unser Land verändern

#chtlinge #democracylab #flu #fluchtlinge #fluchtlingspolitik #land #leipzig #ndern #unser #vera #wie

#Kenya court cancels presidential #election
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-40829848 #democracy

I believe it is a first in #Africa.

Protests in #Poland as Right-Wing Ruling Party Dismantles #Democrac...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/5783793

Protests in #Poland as Right-Wing Ruling Party Dismantles #Democracy ▻https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/07/21/protests-poland-right-wing-ruling-party-dismantles-democracy #erdogan #duterte #trump and now this

#Yahya_Jammeh’s #tribalism
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/12/yahya-jammehs-tribalism

The #Gambia’s outgoing President, Yahya Jammeh, appears to be going nowhere slowly. After conceding defeat in the December 1 presidential election, Jammeh – who has held #Power for the past 22 years – made a U-turn. In spite of the country’s electoral commission confirming opposition candidate Adama Barrow’s victory, Jammeh filed a petition with the […]

#POLITICS #Autocracy #democracy #elections #ethnicity

#Kabila’s impasse
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/12/kabilas-impasse

There is a nervous crescendo building up on the streets of Kinshasa ahead of December 19, the day President Joseph Kabila is supposed to step down. Diplomats are sending their families on early Christmas vacations and the Congolese franc has depreciated by about 25 per cent against the US dollar. On social media and even […]

#POLITICS #Congo #democracy #elections #protests

Tellement loin de la réalité, les français ont besoin d’être commandés

▻https://vimeo.com/166695196

#nuitDebout #démocratie #échec #DemocracyFail

Balotilo, vos élections en ligne
▻http://www.balotilo.org/login

Tags : #democracy #participation #politics #tools #vote #elections

DemocracyOS - Change the Tool
▻http://democracyos.org

Tags : #democracy #participation #politics #tools

Loomio
▻https://www.loomio.org/dashboard

Tags : #democracy #participation #politics #tools

LiquidFeedback - The #democracy Software
▻http://www.liquidfeedback.org

Tags: democracy #participation #politics #tools

liquidfeedback.com · Consulting · Hosting · Training
▻http://www.liquidfeedback.com

Tags : #democracy #participation #politics #tools

“Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade. He tells his story for the first time.”

A very detailed (and very scary) article on the columbian far-right activist who was used for dirty campaigning by many candidates in Latin America.

►http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-to-hack-an-election

#election #democracy #fraud

Why donors demand immediate elections after unrest in developing countries
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/12/11/why-donors-demand-immediate-elections-after-unrest-in-developing-cou #aide #démocratie #democracy #elections

"When suspensions go on for too long, donor agencies may face a cut in their annual budget, resulting in a decline in both resources and staff. In an already unstable funding situation, this is something donor officials want to avoid"