Cases ofPolitical Crowdsourcing

in Morocco

Tarik Nesh-NashSoftware Centre

15 Feb 2013

Crowdsourcing and democracyHypotheses

➲ Crowdsourcing is to use the collective wisedom of the crowd to make decisions.

➲ Democracy is to enable the rule of the crowd (the people)

➲ Crowdsourcing is democracy

Internet : The Fifth Estate

➲ The citizen/crowd is empowered to directly influence the public sphere.

➲ The relationship between citizens and the different estates of the government.

➲ Open and Participative democracy : ➲ An alternative system.

➲ Initiatives and innovations of citizens and civil society

Reforme:ma Constitutional Drafting

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Methodology and Results

➲ 150,000 visited the site to read the constitution

➲ 10,000 amendments to the constitution were submitted

➲ The conclusions were presented to the national committee of constitutional drafting

➲ Other countries like Tunisia and Egypt were inspired from this methodology

Marsad.ma : Elections monitoring

Marsad.ma Results

➲ 80,000 visitors

➲ 1,500 submitted reports

➲ Findings were published on the OMDH election monitoring report

➲ Some reports were submitted to court

Mamdawrinch : Fighting corruption

Floussna.ma : Budget Transparency

Challenges

➲ High illiterary rate

➲ Digital gap

➲ Security

➲ Trustworthiness

➲ Institutional and legal framework

Projects in Progress in Morocco

➲ It is a small international community . So we are crosslearning quickly :

Open Budget

Open Parlement

Focus on Local governance

E-Petitions

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Sine Qua Non condition

➲ The right activation of the constitution

Freedom of expression

Right to access to information

Empower the citizen and the civil society (petitions, etc)

A systemic change

➲ for an open and participative democracy,

➲ For better transparency and governance

➲ For better accountability

➲ For better development