What If Participation Was More Like A Game?
If you’ve recently spent time on Duolingo, claimed airmiles or downloaded an exercise app like Zombies, Run!, you’re familiar with the basic elements of gamification. Commercial enterprises have used features that we typically associate with games – goals and challenges, point scoring, personalisation and rapid, visible feedback for decades to increase consumer engagement. But what […]
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Why Open Source is a Must for Digital Participation Platforms
Public interest needs to be at the heart of every decision we make regarding democracy technologies. Our democracies depend on the trust of voters and their faith in the democratic process. The best way to cultivate trust is through openness. That’s why open source is the natural fit for digital democratic solutions.
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“The evolution of democracy is linked to technology”
Interview with Silvia Caparros, CEO of Scytl, specialist in online voting. The electoral company, Scytl, are experts in providing highly secure solutions for online voting and electoral modernization. CEO, Silvia Caparros, talks about the technology and the services they provide in order to improve and expand democracy.
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“The Vote is the Currency of Democracy”
“The vote is the currency of democracy. If you lose trust in the Euro, the economy goes down and if you lose trust in the vote, then democracy goes down.”
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