Here in Athens we do like this
Paolo Rossi, an italian comedian, made a wonderful job, in taking an old discourse from Pericles, and presenting it to the modern public as part of his personal show: Il Signor Rossi e la costituzione...
View ArticleEducation 2.0. The fully decentralized university
Some time ago I remember reading a comment. La Repubblica, one of the first italian newspaper, holds a big internet website. As part of their initiative they have La Repubblica TV, which is a sort of...
View ArticleDublin, Friday 13th of June, 2008
The problem is not that there are too many elections for Europe, but too few. And the people feel they are not controlling a process that is bigger than them. When people vote No at the battlecry: when...
View ArticleMy first 2 talks available online: Tags & 21st Century Democracy
The two talks I gave at the: International Workshop on Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences, this summer, are now available at videolectures.net. Not the best talks of my career, and hopefully...
View ArticleShould we allow delegated voting in e-Democracy?
This post is the english translation of an italian post. My dear readers, we must speak. We need to speak of the concept of delegating votes in eDemocracy. It will be long, maybe boring, but necessary....
View ArticleDelegating in eDemocracy, my Way!
Recently I wrote a very long post in which I tried, as exhaustively as possible to discuss if it was the case to let people delegate their vote in eDemocracy. The conclusion was that it would be better...
View ArticleIs the Non Linearly Weighted Delegated Voting System Democratic?
This is a post I first wrote in the Italian Blog. But I think it might be of interest also to the English speaking readers. Reading some posts on Facebook I realised how the non-linear weighted...
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