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OpenSourceGovernance

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As far as I can tell, this is kind of a vague term and I’m skeptical that it means anything precise. The reason I bothered to create a page for it is that the MetaGovernment project refers to itself as a “form of democracy called open source governance”, and refers to Wikipedia:Open_source_governance for “a generally accepted definition of this new concept.”

After reading the page Wikipedia:Open_source_governance, I think that the description on the page does not well describe the majority of links on the page. Judging by the links, I would define it as a type of project rather than a specific form of government – only about 2 of the links are about a new form of government. Judging by the links, I would define the phrase as either, broadly, “using open source to improve government processes”, or more narrowly, “using open source to implement new legislative processes”, or even more narrowly, “using open source to implement new direct democracy legislative processes”.

The links on the page are interesting, however.

The legitimacy of guessing the meaning of an unknown phrase by looking at the links on its Wikipedia page, rather than going by the text on that very same Wikipedia page, is an interesting topic in itself.

Personally, “using open source to implement new direct democracy legislative processes” is a topic of interest to me. Recently, I have been making notes on how I would like to organize government if one were starting from scratch. This is related to my goal of designing a legislative procedure for CommunityProgrammableWiki; however, those two projects could help each other in the other direction, too: a CommunityProgrammableWiki could serve as a testbed for new legislative procedures as well.

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