On Participedia: Iceland's Crowdsourced Constitutional Drafting Process

Alexander Kok and others have posted Icelandic Constitutional Council 2011, on Participedia, the open global knowledge community for researchers and practitioners in the field of democratic innovation and public engagement.

This page describes the processes by which Iceland has drafted a new national constitution, and the institutions involved in those processes. The page includes a helpful diagram of the drafting process.

Those processes are notable in part because they involved crowdsourcing the drafting of parts of the constitution by means of online social media.

The page also includes links to several sources that describe or analyze these drafting processes.

For more information, please see the complete page.

Disclosure: I contribute to Participedia.

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