Can an Argentine startup reinvent governance through a smartphone app?

Re:Can an Argentine startup reinvent governance through a sm... by wavefunction on Saturday July 19, 2014 @04:00PM (#8058536)

I upvoted you but I think you may be discounting "reinventing in a negative or ineffective manner" as potential outcomes.

The comparison to Wordpress is certainly frightening when one considers the ramifications of failures in security or anonymity. The whole article is rather breathless and trite:

"must sign up using a national ID card and a second piece of identification (early plans to use Facebook as a means of authenticating users’ identities were dropped over concerns about making the platform overly reliant on a U.S. tech firm). And how a person votes on the platform is not secret."

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Re:Can an Argentine startup reinvent governance through a sm... by hepek on Saturday July 19, 2014 @04:46PM (#8058663)

"Still, for all the publicity Mancini and the Net Party have received, participation on the platform is low—debates on legislation rarely attract more than 100 voters—in a capital city with some 2.5 million eligible voters and an Internet penetration rate of 70 percent'

I just lack faith in technological solutionism. If there is an issue everybody felt important people would've found ways to fight for it. Even take it to the streets.

Sometimes I fear of "Like button" democracy more then I fear corrupted officials.

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