Proposal for Knight News Challenge

[Alexander Praetorius]

Hopefully it get's them curious.
Thats probably the most important thing - to make them curious enough so
that they start reading stuff in depth :-)
I think it sounds good.


On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Michael Allan <mike at zelea.com> wrote:

> The Knight News Challenge this year is, "How might we improve the way
> citizens and governments interact?"  https://www.newschallenge.org/
> Here's a draft of something I'd like to propose:
>
>
> PROJECT TITLE
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> Public autonomy based on the discourse principle
>
> DESCRIPTION
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> We aren't quite free if we're obeying laws we haven't discussed and
> agreed with. Our autonomy in a social world that regulates itself by
> laws and other norms of action (public autonomy) depends on being able
> to understand and agree with those norms that we're affected by. As
> the social theorist and philosopher Habermas puts it, "Just those
> action norms are valid to which all possibly affected persons could
> agree as participants in rational discourses."
>
> Taking this *discourse principle* as our guiding star, we aim to
> develop and disseminate practices of public autonomy based on
> transitive voting, recombinant text, and a relentless exposure of
> evolving drafts to those who have reason for dissent. We'll
> simultaneously run open electoral primaries based on transitive voting
> to put our most qualified drafters on the ballot and into assemblies,
> where they'll continue to work with us, their un-elected peers.
>
> We'll use MediaWiki for the drafting medium; Semantic MediaWiki as an
> open database and voter registry (streetwiki); existing public forums
> as discussion media; Votorola's prototype toolset for transitive
> voting and inter-draft patching; plus any other suitable tools and
> projects we discover along the way. These should be sufficient to
> support a crude practice. Our immediate task is to assemble a good
> team to debug and refine that practice, especially its crucial public
> interface. It looks like small, team-like groups will not only conduct
> the day-to-day core of the practice, but also serve as teachers and
> role models behind its dissemination. In any case, we don't want the
> design of the tools to harden till we understand the hands-on
> practice. Nobody's ever done this before.
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/
> http://semantic-mediawiki.org/
> http://zelea.com/project/votorola/home.html
>
> WHAT IS YOUR PROJECT? [1 sentence max]
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> To develop and disseminate practices of public autonomy based on
> transitive voting, recombinant text, and a relentless exposure of
> evolving drafts to those who have reason for dissent.
>
>
> Comments are welcome. It's not a thumbs-up/down thing, it'll be read
> by intelligent people. But is it fairly clear? Or are parts confusing?
>
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> Michael Allan
>
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