[HacktionLab] {Spam?} {Spam?} Consul - Free software for citizen participation.

[acesabe]

On 2018-01-09 15:51, Encosianima wrote:

> Hi!
> Well, it's used by several councils ( there's a list on the site)  
> that's to say the condition to be citizen of one of these councils is 
> needed to have experience with it ( IMHO).
> 
> Was your idea to propose it to be adopted by a city council of your 
> knowledge? In this case, you're welcome to make contact with them, 
> they're absolutely open to have their project spread around the world!


I think it looks like it might be a very useful resource for more than 
just councils/ayuntamientos to empower and facilitate 
groups/communities/organisations to be able to 'e-democratically' 
discuss/debate/participate/vote on matters/subjects/proposals that are 
relevant to them. The fact that Consul is already being used widely 
across Spain and central/southern America suggests that is a useful and 
functional resource. The fact it *isn't* being used elsewhere perhaps 
simply suggests Consul hasn't yet reached that far yet. Perhaps 
altitudes to using FOSS solutions and open e-democracy by .gov in other 
parts of the world (I'm looking at English speaking countries 
specifically right now) is due to them being less open to using FOSS 
solutions? Perhaps Consul is not (yet) up to the task?

The reason I posted here was to raise awareness of this potentially 
useful resource to new audiences who may find it interesting/useful or 
perhaps know of it already and have something to say about it (positive 
or negative). Perhaps it could be useful for Barncamp/Hacktionlab 
organisation, the subject has been discussed recently with plentiful 
suggestions of possible tools and resources that might be helpful in 
facilitating future event organisation...

A


> 
> Vale
> 
> Knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore 
> that
> learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those 
> networks" (Downes, 2012).
> On 9 Jan 2018, at 13:48, acesabe <acesabe at acesabe.net> wrote:
> 
>> I've not used it but appears popular in the Spanish speaking 
>> countries, presumably as it's a Spanish originating project, but I 
>> can't imagine there is any good reason why it isn't more widely being 
>> used in other countries. Anyone got any experience with it?
>> 
>> http://www.decide.es/en/index.html
>> 
>> A
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