Principles

1. Empowerment and Transparency
- Nourish grassroots participation but don't direct or control it
- Help ease the transition of social technologies & Understand the integrated relationships

2. 2-way communication requires flexibility and allowance for making mistakes

Design/Experience
- participatory politics
- citizen engagement
- social innovation
- consultation
- online/offline
- local/global
- deep dialogue
- problem solving

3. corporate responsibility & political engagement

training and education for employees

4. Equality of Access
- Citizens as lobbyists
- coordination
- access to politicians
- resources

5. Expanding of technological enfranchisement

6. Transparency - access to data
- move from the request to access paradigm (push vs pull)
- Freedom of information, tech problems should not be an excuse

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What Happens Next?