I have a hunch that 21st century democracy is going to be characterised by much more participation. I don’t mean mass opinion gathering: I’m thinking of a kind of participation that is transformative…

Project Cybersyn was a Chilean project from 1971–1973 during the presidency of Salvador Allende aimed at constructing a distributed decision support system to aid in the management of the national economy. The project consisted of four modules: an economic simulator, custom software to check factory performance, an operations room, and a national network of telex machines that were linked to one mainframe computer.[2]

Everything oil companies aren’t telling you about the extent of fracking in California, and what it means for your food, water, and health.

Your media business will still probably not be saved. But you could make something brand new.

This is a user-friendly interactive database that provides a unique overview of the lobby meetings of the European Commission since December 2014.
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