1. Tiago Peixoto
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Pessimism of the Intellect
Open Government
&

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Semantic Extravaganza
Where e-Participation Stands
Where to go to
The Napoleonic Semaphore
overview

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semantic extravaganza

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(…) what primary movement or sector is mySociety part of?
Or Avaaz? Or Kiva? Or Wikileaks? When I ask myself these
questions, no obvious words or names race quickly or clearly to
mind. There is a gap – or at best quite a bit of fuzziness – where
the labels should go.
This lack of good labels should surprise us because these
groups definitely have aims and goals, normally explicit. Also,
it is unusual because social and political movements tend to be
quite good at developing names and sticking to them.
Tom Steinberg, April 2013

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Argumentum ad Novitatem
(logical fallacy)

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And this worries me because consistent names help causes
to persist over time. If the field of AIDS research had been
renamed every 6 months, could it have lasted as it did? Flighty,
narrowly used language confuses supporters, prevents focus
and is generally the enemy of long term success.
Tom Steinberg, April 2013

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where the field stands

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some progress,
but…

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techno-deterministic
fragmented
biased
methodologically immature
under-theorized

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THE WAY FORWARD

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participation field
connect
with the

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beyond
Habermasian

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institutional
design

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crowdsourcing

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Condorcet Jury Theorem

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different
disciplinary
perspectives

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perspective
historical

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Someone made a remark about the telegraph which
seems to me infinitely correct, and which brings out its
full importance, namely that, at bottom, this invention
might suffice to make possible the establishment of
democracy among a large population. Many respectable
men, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, thought that
the establishment of democracy was impossible among
large populations. How could such a people deliberate?
Among the Ancients, all the citizens were assembled in a
single place; they communicated their will...
Alexander Vandermonde, 1795. In: Mattelart 2003: 22

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The invention of the telegraph is a new factor that
Rousseau did not include in his calculations. It can
be used to speak at great distances as fluently and
as distinctly as in a room. There is no reason why it
would not be possible for all the citizens of France to
communicate their will, within a rather short time,
in such a way that this communication might be
considered instantaneous.
Alexander Vandermonde, 1795. In: Mattelart 2003: 22

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optimism of the will
Pessimism of the Intellect

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THANK YOU
Tiago Peixoto (@participatory)
World Bank (ICT4Gov / ODTA)
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