[liberationtech] Israel's new direct party

[Yishay Mor]

True. But "direct party" is the name they choose. I guess they thought not
many people would understand "open source".

Yishay

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On 18/05/2011 16:01, "Michael Dahan" <dahanm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yishay,
>
> I think that the initiative would be better termed "open source" democracy
> rather than "direct" democracy which has a different meaning in political
> science terms.
>
> Best,
>
> Mike Dahan
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 15:18, Yishay Mor <yishaym at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A new political party in Israel proposes to be a conduit for direct
>> democracy by representing in parliament positions proposed and polled by
its
>> members on the web.
>> http://hayeshira.org.il/
>> Unfortunately, Hebrew only at the moment, but google translate should
give
>> you a reasonable picture.
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