Cases about crowdsourcing in policy making

1. Crowdsourcing in
democratic processes
Tanja Aitamurto
tanjaa@stanford.edu
Social Forum
April 2012
Helsinki, Finland

2. Open X

3. Crowdsourcing:
Online task open
for “anybody” to
participate in

4. Transparency Open Data
Participatory
Participation Processes Co-Creation
Open Innovation Crowdsourcing
Collaboration
Deliberative polling
Citizen Empowerment
New expressions of
freedom, means for
Public Sphere impact, activism,
shaping the citizenship

5. Crowdsourcing in
Democractic Processes

6. Open Constitution Reform
à la Iceland

8. Many paths for participation:
Facebook, Twitter, email, paper letters.

9. The Committee for the Future
9

10. Consequences of the open process
New perspectives to the constitution:
e.g. genetic discrimination
National discussion about the meaning of the
constitution for a citizen
The constitution draft is an alternative for the
current constitution, something that the public
can comment on
The Parliament is currently considering the draft
The Committee for the Future
10

11. Local vs. distant knowledge
neighborhood

12. Search in citizens’
knowledge neighborhoods

13. Crowdsourcing in innovation challenges
Innocentive

14. “All of us are smarter than any one of us”
Pierre Levy, James Surowiecki
14

15. Crowdsourcing in the
United States Government

16. Commenting, voting, tagging
16

17. Recruited dialogue catalysts,
such as Craig Newmark 17

18. Participants collected points, and their input was
recorded into their profile stream 18

19. Leaderboard
shows the
ranking of the
users based on
activity 19

20. Results
Hundreds of ideas, thousands of votes
Perspectives, notions, ideas
Strategies under construction 20

21. Calgary Budget
Discussion

22. Binary Decision Making
AllOurIdeas.org

24. Chicago Budget
Discussion

25. Following the process

26. Spreading info about
City’s services

27. Million dollar question:
What happens to citizens’ input?
27

28. Open Innovation
EPA Apps Challenge

29. How could the Parliament of Finland use
crowdsourcing?
https://www.facebook.com/
JoukkoistaminenTuvi

30. Questions, comments?
Tanja Aitamurto
Visiting Researcher
Program on Liberation Technology
Stanford
tanjaa@stanford.edu
@tanjaaita
www.tanjaaitamurto.com