In this seminar, students will design and perfect a digital environment to house the activities of large-scale organizations of people making bottom-up decisions, such as with citizen-government affairs, voting corporate shareholders or voting members of global non-profits and labor unions
277 years, 9 months
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A working Open Source prototype created last semester will be used as the starting point, featuring collaborative filtering and electronic agent technology pioneered at the Media Lab. This course focuses on development of online spaces as part of an interdependent human environment, including physical architectures, mapped work processes and social/political dimensions.
A cross-disciplinary approach will be taken; students with background in architecture, urban planning, law, cognition, business, digital media and computer science are encouraged to participate. No prior technical knowledge is necessary, though a rudimentary understanding of web page creation is helpful.
Course Currilcum
- Overview Unlimited
- First Principles and Design Requirements Unlimited
- Collaborative Filters for Community and Governance: “Can We All Now Finally Talk At Once?” Unlimited
- Perspectives on the Central Role of Open Source Code for Participatory Governance: Human Laws / Coded Conditionals Unlimited
- Echoes from History: Language of Participatory Democracy and Self-Governance Unlimited
- Slashdot as Example Unlimited
- Name and Identity Unlimited
- Identity, Input, and Output Unlimited
- Transactions Unlimited
- Disputes Unlimited
