README.md

Curated List of democracy-related resources ...

Contents

• Philosophy
  • Seminal contributions to modern democracy
• Techniques/Technology
  • Software
    • Software-Development
      • related awesome-sites on github
      • possibly related Tags/Topics on github
• Known Democracy Bugs
  • actual empirical bugs
• License
• TODO

Philosophy

Democracy makes our work and living here possible.

It is the ASCII, the code big parts of the worlds social, political and cultural processes are based upon.

It is the fundamental OS.

It is about cooperation and colaboration.

But it hasn't existed always, nor will it.

And it is far from being perfect - it demands development to avoid beeing outdated and deprecated.

Seminal contributions to modern democracy

...rebasing

X	idea / author	key concepts	source-code / other ressources	timestamp/commit
	Equality	social, gender, racial equality
	Liberty	free will
		free expression / press
	Pluralism
	Magna_Carta	limiting feudality	jpg	1215
	Letterpress_printing	technological development:		1440
		communication
	Protestant Reformation	limiting catholicism		1517
	John_Locke	liberalism	two treatises of civil government	1689
	Burlamaqui	checks and balances	principles of natural and politic law	1747
	Rousseau	general will	ContratSocial_pdf	1762
	Voltaire		philosophical letters	1765
	Montesquieu	republicanism	complete works	1777
		separation of power
	Tocqueville		de la democratie en amerique	1848
	modern Internet	technological development:		1990
		communication
	electronic_voting	technological development:		2004
		communication

Techniques/Technology

Monitoring

• internationaldemocracywatch
• eiu democracy index
• statewatch
• transparency
• freedom of press

Software

• OpenSource /Free_and_open_source_software

• Linux

• GitHub (but what to do since it is owned by Microsoft?)

Software-Development

• humanetech
• democraciaenred
• opendemocracynet

on github

X	github	project url / deployments	topic	activity / last commit	Stars
1	democracyos	democracyos
		evoks
		pjlr democracyos
2	consul
		consulproject
		decide madrid
4	democracy io
5	civiwiki	civiwiki	masscommunication
6	publicwhip		votation/
			results/
			control delegates
7	rundfunk mitbestimmen	rundfunk mitbestimmen	votation/
			results
			participation
8	democracy client
9	alaveteli	alaveteli org	control jurisdiction
10	decidim	decidim	community/
			government
		decidim barcel
		osallistu hel
		participa castillalamancha
		erabaki pamplona
		...many more
	data4democracy
	ciudadanointeligente

on gitlab

X	gitlab	project url / deployments	topic	activity / last commit	Stars
	democracy tools
	democracy
	your priorities app
	consul pol
	democracy box
	sovereign .
	democracy plus
	javascript democracy
	pseudo democracy discord bot
	Rules of Order
	coop governance
	simple direct democracy website
	election transparency
	https://gitlab.com/gonzalop67/Democracy

related awesome-sites on github

• awesome-democracy-data
• awesome humanetech
• humans
• awesome readme
• awesome hci
• awesome humanitarian_foss

possibly related Tags/Topics on github

• citizens
• civic tech
• decision making
• deliberation
• democracy measures
• democracy
• democracynow
• e-participation
• liquid democracy
• municipalities
• open data
• parliamentary data
• parliamentary monitoring
• political science
• politics
• poll
• popular proposals
• right to know
• social
• vote
• voting

Known Democracy Bugs

sistemic bugs and diseases

which usually result in different levels of inequality of power

political historical counterconcepts

• monarchy
• constitutional monarchy
• aristocracy
• dictatorship
• authoritarianism
  • due to inactivity/passiveness
• authoritarianism -> mentality -> beliefs -> education
• nepotism

political caveats

• overrated importance of property

actual empirical bugs

• lack of participation

  • due to:
    • lack of motivation
      • due to:
        • lack of rights (mainly global level)
      • governmental (jurisdictional) and social discrimination
        • lack of knowledge (education)
        • lack of knowledge (information)
        • lack of knowledge (communication)
        • lack of interest -> motivation
        • lack of institutional responsibility -> education
        • lack of individual responsibility -> education
        • lack of realistic (well-communicated) offers/projects
        • lack of access
      • due to:
        • mismanaged burocracy
        • digital gap
        • abusive manipulation of information -> fake-news

• economic inequality

• protectionism

• corruption

  • power abuse
    • authoritarianism
    • abusive manipulation of information
  • abundance -> property

• religious fanaticism

• destruction of the ecosystem

• lack of education

• dilemma: strong liberalism reveals strong individualism and selfishness

• problem: decision-making is slower than with competitive political systems (time factor)

strategies against democracy bugs

• freedom of information

• better financed educational systems

• FOSS since it tackles lack of education and property issues

tactics against democracy bugs

• [wikipedia.org][wikipedia.org]

• libraries since they fight lack of knowledge

Resources

• Project Gutenberg
• Online Library of Liberty (liberal perspective)

License

This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0International License

TODO

• Content
  • github-list
    • complete list
    • organise/sort list
  • establish ranking criteria
• Democracy Ecosystem
• Liberal Culture
• Layers
  • recent layers:
    • transparency-debate
• Definitions
  • grades of democracy