An unparliament is a conference where the content of the meeting is driven and created by the public rather than by elected politicians. The unparliament is the reality gathering where Open Politics are debated, a meeting place for the community.
The concept based on Unconference, an idea by Lenn Pryor when discussing BloggerCon but popularized by Dave Winer in his blog.
please add ideas to this short definition.
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David Abutbul suggested that parliament meeting sessions should be held using XHTML standard while ministerial positions in government should be voted using the XFN standard.
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Bugzilla
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Bugzilla is a general-purpose bug-tracking tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla Foundation. Since Bugzilla is web-based and is free software / open source software, it is also the bug tracking tool of choice for many projects, both open source and proprietary.
Bugzilla’s notion of a bug is very general; for instance, mozilla.org uses it to track feature requests as well.
Government needs it! (bug-tracking tool and track feature requests)
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Oh dear, the LazyWeb, “The idea that if you wait long enough, someone will implement that wacky idea you had… (or already has!)”, hit me.
I just googled LazyGov and stumbled upon the idea I posted yesterday.
Tim Jackson: “The idea would simply be to put up a web site where people - normal civilians, not think tankers or politicians — can report good ideas from governments around the world so that they can be shared and copied.”
Mark Simpkins started LazyGov.
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LazyGov is based on the LazyWeb concept and the RFC (Request for Comments) process. The LazyWeb claims that “The idea that if you wait long enough, someone will implement that wacky idea you had… (or already has!)“. civil society take waky ideas and try to persuade government to implement them as laws. Usually this is a long process and at times involves protest.
On the other hand, politicians take ideas and make them into policy, after getting feedback from their constituency. Participation and peer review help discuss ideas and build a constituency.
LazyGov only works when people discuss ideas and help each other improve government.
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