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Finland
Land of tens of thousands of lakes
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Finland
Independent since 1917
Young democracy
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Finland
5.4 million inhabitants in
1.4x area of UK
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Finland
Education (PISA 2009) #3
(UK #25)
Corruption #1(UK #17)
Effective multiparty
0%
20%
Kes Kok PS SDP Vih Vas RKP KD
http://www.oecd.org/pisa/46643496.pdf http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/results
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Citizen initiative in Finland
1PASSED 1YEAR
Constitution changed
1st
of March, 2012
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The greatest risk
is the cacophony ofzillions of weak ideas
What will likely happen?
Too many ideasEven good ideas
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Filtering for clarity
Filter the good ideas
Campaign the best ideas
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Open Ministry
Crowdsourcing
lawmaking
Like a ministry
By the peopleFor the people
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Open Ministry
Ideation &
Development Campaigning Lobbying
Platform
Technical Human
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Recent campaigns: Banning Fur
farming
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The Open MinistryOpen ministry
Equal marriage Dismantlealcohol
monopoly
Fur-farmingban
Copyright law
reform
Government
debt ceiling
Energy drink
prohibition for
under 15 years
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The Open MinistryOpen ministry
Equal marriage Dismantlealcohol
monopoly
Fur-farmingban
Copyright law
reform
Government
debt ceiling
Energy drink
prohibition for
under 15 years
From the IDEAS
to DRAFTS
to PROPOSALS
to LAWS
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Ensuring success
Campaign
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Idea 1
This sucks!Idea 2
Could besupported
Idea 3
This is great!
Ideation Campaign Lobbying
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Examples of ideas
Only one official language
Paternity test also a right
of a man
Criminalisation of school
bullying
Open data as a mandatoryconsideration
Over 400 iniative ideasproposed
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Statements of Support
Strongly authenticated electronic
Revolution
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Recent campaigns: Copyright law
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Copyright law reform
Finland darted from
Democratic prehistory to
Modern Internet age
Campaigns getting help
from each other
Equal marriages jump-started
with 100 000 signatures
on the first day
2x the required 50 000
50 000 = 1.7% of voting population
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Technical stuff: Codebase
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Technical stuff: Semsi
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Open Ministry startedcollection of
PAPER FORMSin collaboration with libraries.
To provide easy access forpeople not using internet.
Or not yet accustomed to
e-Democracy.
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We are expanding to municipalities
Open Ministry
Open Council
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We are expanding to other countries
Open Ministry
Open Council
Open Ministry
Slovakia
Open Ministry
Italy
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We are expanding to European level
Open Ministry
Open Council
OpenCommission
Open Ministry
Slovakia
Open Ministry
Italy
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Tools
Social Media
FacebookEmailYoutubeTwitter, G+
Collaborative editingGoogle Docs
Etherpad
Video chatsSkype
Hangout
No Pinterest, IRC-Gallery, Instagram,
Minister of Internal Affairs:
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Politician remindedinitiative law was
made by them
Meme reached301 000 Finns
that is about
every sixthFacebook user
Minister of Internal Affairs:
Is the purpose of the citizen initiative to
allow a shortcut to law-making, really?
Yes, dear politician! Its quite
unfortunate it became as a
surprise to the very parliamentwho approved the law.
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Lessons learned
Fourcampaigns1) 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
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No need to be
sneaky
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Takes vision
to get aligned
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We havent seen snakesso cant give guidance on that
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We have met a few tigers
They
are
great
allies
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Stranger