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New Babylon was to be something even more radical: a place where new technologies would replace the drudgery of labor by automatic processes, enabling the city’s inhabitants to experience a “nomadic life of creative play.”
The Smart City Is a Perpetually Unrealized Utopia
technologyreview.com
Today, it is easy for a participant in a participatory budgeting process to use a polished digital interface to suggest an idea or to vote.
However, nothing on these platforms enables people to stay in the democratic conversation once they have had their say, to stay informed on the issues in their area, or to find opportunities to participate elsewhere. Even platforms such as Decidim and Consul, which allow people to participate in multiple different processes, still have a fundamentally process- and discussion-based model.
Why Its Time for a New Approach to Civic Tech
democracy-technologies.org
Vertical data relations describe the relationship between data subjects (people) and data collectors (often tech platforms). These relationships are encoded technically via data flows from data subjects to data collectors and they are encoded legally by the contracts and background rules of privacy and consumer law that govern these relationships. These vertical relations are also the subject of reform, as new approaches seek to empower data subjects with stronger rights in their interactions with increasingly powerful data collectors.
Data Governance for a Society of Equals
lpeproject.org
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