Crowdsourced lawmaking The Open Ministry

Aleksi Rossi

2013-06-

Finland

Land of tens of thousands of lakes

Finland

Independent since 1917 Young democracy

Finland

5.4 million inhabitants in 1.4x area of UK

Finland
Education (PISA 2009) #3
(UK #25)

Corruption
(UK

#1
#17)

Effective multiparty
20% 0%
Kes Kok PS SDP Vih Vas RKP KD
http://www.oecd.org/pisa/46643496.pdf http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/results

Constitution changed
st 1

of March, 2012
in Finland

Citizen initiative

1 PASSED YEAR

What will likely happen? The greatest risk isToo the many cacophony ideasof zillions weak ideas Even of good ideas

Filtering for clarity

Filter the good ideas Campaign the best ideas

Open Ministry
Crowdsourcing lawmaking

Like a ministry By the people For the people

Open Ministry

Ideation & Development

Technical

Campaigning
Human Platform

Lobbying

Recent campaigns: Banning Fur farming

Open ministry

The Open Ministry

Equal marriage

Dismantle alcohol monopoly

Fur-farming ban

Copyright law reform

Government debt ceiling

Energy drink prohibition for under 15 years

Open ministry

The Open Ministry

From the IDEAS

Equal marriage
Dismantle to DRAFTS alcohol monopoly Fur-farming ban

to PROPOSALS
Energy drink prohibition for under 15 years

Copyright law reform

Government debt ceiling

to LAWS

Campaign

Ensuring success

Ideation

Campaign

Lobbying

Idea 1 This sucks! Idea 2 Could be supported Idea 3 This is great!

Examples of ideas
Over 400 iniative ideas proposed

Only one official language

Paternity test also a right of a man Criminalisation of school bullying Open data as a mandatory consideration

Strongly authenticated electronic Statements of Support

Revolution

Recent campaigns: Copyright law

Copyright law reform

Campaigns getting help from each other

Finland darted from Democratic prehistory to Modern Internet age

Equal marriages jump-started with 100 000 signatures on the first day

2x the required 50 000 50 000 = 1.7% of voting population

Technical stuff: Codebase

Technical stuff: Semsi

Open Ministry started collection of

PAPER FORMS
in collaboration with libraries. To provide easy access for people not using internet. Or not yet accustomed to e-Democracy.

We are expanding to municipalities

Open Ministry

Open Council

We are expanding to other countries

Open Ministry Slovakia

Open Ministry

Open Ministry Italy

Open Council

We are expanding to European level

Open Commission

Open Ministry Slovakia

Open Ministry

Open Ministry Italy

Open Council

Tools

Collaborative editing
Google Docs Etherpad

Social Media
Facebook
Email
Youtube
Twitter, G+

Video chats
Skype Hangout

No Pinterest, IRC-Gallery, Instagram,

Minister of Internal Affairs: Is the purpose of the citizen initiative to allow a shortcut to law-making, really?

Politician reminded initiative law was made by them

Meme reached

301 000 Finns

Yes, dear politician! Its quite unfortunate it became as a surprise to the very parliament who approved the law.

that is about

every sixth
Facebook user

Lessons learned
Four campaigns 1) Pre-campaign for activists 2) Pre-campaign for public 3) Campaign for public 4) Post-campaign for politicians Barrier to use CI bashed Activating people is beneficial

No need to be

sneaky

Takes vision to get aligned

We havent seen snakes

so cant give guidance on that

We have met a few tigers

They are great allies

Stranger <

Meaningful small tasking is hard

Random contributions are easier to get But stickyness?

Would Open ministry work out elsewhere?

Everywhere?

Thank you!
Time to get your feet wet!

Time for Questions!

Aleksi.Rossi@iki.fi

@AlekRossi
http://aleksirossi.com
https://speakerdeck.com/rossi/crowdsourced-lawmaking-ODI

Thank you!

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