More on Wikipolitics: http://www.socialtext.net/wikinomics/index.cgi?wikis_and_politics
On Dec 10, 2007 1:03 PM, Oleh Kovalchuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 8, 2007 8:49 AM, Michael Tuminello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all - > > > > I was thinking that the IxDA community has a lot of potential to > > contribute something positive to the world at large, either by > > improving some system that people use for some positive social > > impact, or maybe just making a social issue more visible via better > > information design. > > > > Instead of picking one issue, why not design a generic framework for > solving social issues across borders, groups, interests - Wikipolitics. > Instead of voting once in two or four years (or not voting at all) > create "streaming civil society". The framework should allow to participate > in solving issues globally, by nation, by town, by group, by individual. > > Dan Tapscott mentions some more restricted experiments in wikipolitics > here (by the way, his 'Wikinomics' book is worth reading): > http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/26/wiki-politics/ > > Perhaps Politicopia.com <http://politicopia.com/> could be redesigned with > the global, more generic framework in mind. > Or perhaps the existing social networking sites could be used? > > Oleh > > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
