Dcent slides

Dcent slides

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  Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies fordirect democracy and economic empowerment Joint Negotiation meeting for Collective Awareness Platforms Brussels, 15 May 2013 Project coordinator: Francesca Bria, Senior Adviser Nesta [email protected]
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  D-CENT concept andobjectives
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  • D-CENT willprovide civil society with immediately useable digital tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment. But it will also grow longerterm alternatives to today’s highly centralised platforms and power structures • It brings together world-class technologists and academics with a large number of citizen groups across Europe • D-CENT will develop an open, federated and decentralised social networking platform for large scale collaboration based on integrating successful opensource codebases that enable to share in real-time open data, democratic decision making, and digital currency for the social good • D-CENT will promote large-scale adoption of the D-CENT open specifications, interoperable technology, open data and open APIs
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  D-CENT use casesand platform open specifications
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  Advancement beyond the Stateof the Art
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  Decentralised Social Networking Lettingusers control their own data through a decentralized open ecosystem based on open standards built on a federated social web protocol and existing open-source social-networking codebase, Adding group collaboration capabilities and open-source framework for crowd-sourcing with federation in a single modular opensource codebase
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  Citizen engagement andopen democracy Open democracy, crowd source legislation, and deliberation integrating social feedback from t he citizenship. Re-factoring software from 3 communities that have revolutionised democracy in the Internet age The proxying and real-time polling of Liquid Democracy + deliberation by Social Innovation + clear decisionmaking and authentication of Open Ministry
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  Incentive structures –Linking civic actions to collaborative economic models Redesign Bitcoin for the social good, enabling communities to use a opensource fork of Bitcoin (Freecoin) to empower their local CES. Threadgate app a “P2P Craig's list” to share goods and services with Freecoin recording the transactions via a community-controlled rating service. By building on the power of community groups and open data about local resources, D-CENT will enable social digital currencies to reach scale with measurable results
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  D-CENT principles • Communityownership of data and access to knowledge • Security and privacy by design • Interoperability and standardisation • Inclusiveness, accessibility, and open source • Exploiting the network effect through mass user adoption and replicability