Re: Mexico City is crowdsourcing its new constitution

Some may be interested in the failed case of a 'citizen's constitutional rewrite' that occured in Iceland five years ago. It was a more-or-less complete failure (on electorial technicalities and with heavy right-wing 'Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn' party opposition -- the very same one whose PM was a

Re: Mexico City is crowdsourcing its new constitution

Hi. I live in Mexico City and I've been intrigued by the relatively small amount of online discussion on this topic by my academic, middle-class peers. I've mostly read pronouncements by mainstream, right-wingish journalists who are always ready to disparage any potentially

Re: Mexico City is crowdsourcing its new constitution

I also think this is quite something and it would be interesting to get some accounts of this process from people up close. Any nettimers in Mexico city at the moment? This is, indeed, a mega-experiment, but it's one that's in line with others. Again and again, the metropolitan area, or the large

Re: Mexico City is crowdsourcing its new constitution

Whoah. Change.org or not, this is a fascinating greater-than-life-size experiment. Mexico City is at once one of the most difficult and one of the most vibrant urban regions in the world. The spirit of the early 20th century Mexican Revolution, relayed by 1968, continually clashes with the

Re: Mexico City is crowdsourcing its new constitution

Dear Nettimers, I find it alarming that Change.org is starting to be used for official votes. Change.org received the Big Brother Award 2016 in Germany “because it uses personally identifiable information of people who signed petitions for the company’s own business purposes in varied and

Re: Mexico City is crowdsourcing its new constitution

> On Jun 5, 2016, at 3:25 PM, nettime's consitutional hobbyist > wrote: > > Mexico is launching a big experiment in democracy that promises to turn > people’s ideas into the new law of the land. > > By Rafa Fernandez De Castro >

Mexico City is crowdsourcing its new constitution

Mexico is launching a big experiment in democracy that promises to turn people’s ideas into the new law of the land. By Rafa Fernandez De Castro http://fusion.net/story/298572/how-mexico-city-is-using-the-internet-to-crowdsource-its-new-constitution/ In January President Enrique Peña Nieto