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A thorough review and rewriting of the constitution (which is more or less Denmark’s constitution with a few minor tweaks) has been on the legislative agenda since Iceland gained independence in...
Iceland’s original constitution was created in 1944 when the country gained independence from Denmark. The country’s economic collapse in 2008 prompted calls for a rewrite with checks and...
The ‘Act on a Constitutional Assembly’ led to the following important events in Iceland: The Act established, first, a National Meeting in November 2010 with the purpose of crowd-sourcing the...
Iceland’s progressiveness in embracing modern technology is astounding. In fact, Iceland’s 2011 Constitutional Council crowdsourced its constitution, turning to social media sites to make the...
In October and November 2011 Iceland said welcome to the world. The locals, musicians, farmers, chefs, even the president opened their doors and treated guests as one of their own so they could...
One member of of Iceland’s constitutional council, Thorvaldur Gylfason, commented on the historical political change; “I believe this is the first time a constitution is being drafted...
Iceland has a bit of a history when it comes to using tech in innovative ways. In 2011, for instance, it crowdsourced its new constitution using social media. Now the mid-Atlantic island wants to...
Iceland Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir has has urged citizens to vote in ths weekend‘s referendum on a draft constitution. About 230,000 voters were eligible to take part in the vote,...
Icelanders voted Saturday in a consultative referendum on what has been dubbed the world's first"crowdsourced constitution",but turnout was sluggish amid fears politicians would...
The committee asked the public for feedback on constitutional proposals, including via social networking websites Facebook and Twitter, prompting the media to dub the new basic law as the...
If the draft, which is now before the Icelandic Parliament, is accepted, it will be the first constitution in global history created with full transparency and citizen participation. SOURCE...
Regardless of the document's final status, the drafting process - inspired by crowdsourcing techniques - has produced a remarkably progressive legal code and generated significant interest...
Since Iceland has a population of just over 300,000, the proportion of citizens involved directly in the constitution draft process was quite significant, even more so if online participants are...
These are the parties like The Pirate Party, who have campaigned for strict Freedom of Information Laws. Or Bright Future, who have used online crowdsourcing techniques to try to write a new...
According to one of the panelists, Iceland is poor in money but is very rich in creativity. So, crowdsourcing is indeed beneficial for them!
This is the first time a constitution is being drafted basically on the internet. The public sees the constitution come into being before their eyes … This is very different from old times where...
Even with the world’s largest per capita number of internet users, or 95% in 2009,4 Iceland’s experiment with constitutional crowdsourcing may raise concerns about unequal access because the...
The Icelandic Constitutional Council is an ongoing experiment. It has not ended although formally the council has finished its task and been dissolved. The exercise, whatever its results, is an...
Crowdfunding news is piling up in Europe these days just as fast as the leaves are starting to fall from the trees. While a new law to legalize crowdfunding was hitting across the continent in Italy late last week, Karolina Fund was launching what it claims is Iceland's first crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platform.
Icelanders voted in support of a constitution written by 25 ordinary individuals who sought input from the crowd. The result of the vote, however, is non-binding, meaning that the crowdsourced constitution may not be basis for a draft written by the government, which is due to be finalized in mid-2013.
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