Today's network, the internet, has already shown itself to be the agent of great change. In this talk I'm going to look at some of the new ways politics is coming to ordinary people and some of the incredible opportunities for the future. We have the potential to re-imagine the very core of our democratic system - but how can we do this without leaving people behind?

1. The network at the
heart of democracy
Matthew Landauer
OpenAustralia Foundation
@matthewlandauer
matthew@openaustralia.org

2. Implementation of
Democracy
The Past
The Future
The Present

3. “Form of government in which supreme
power is vested in the people and exercised
by them directly or indirectly through a
system of representation usually involving
periodic free elections...”
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/
157129/democracy

4. 1. The Past

8. Stagecoach

9. How do you run a
country with problems
like that?

10. Representation

11. Our system of
democracy
is a mirror of the time in
which it was created

12. 2. The Future

13. The last 250 years

14. The last 250 years

16. What kind of democracy
is possible with these
new technologies?

17. Representative
democracy but not based
on physical area

18. Direct democracy

19. Proxy voting

20. Warning

22. Is the Internet the same
as two people talking to
each other?

23. How do we get there?

24. Experiment

25. Transparency and
information

26. 3. The Present

27. What is
OpenAustralia?
OpenAustralia.org is a non-partisan website
run by a group of volunteers which aims to
make it easy for people to keep tabs on
their representatives in Parliament.

30. OpenAustralia
Foundation

31. Non partisan

34. OpenAustralia.org

50. Near Future

51. So many possibilities

52. Voting

55. Committees

56. Bills

57. States & Territories

58. Video

59. Contacting politicians

60. Get involved

61. Join the Google Group
openaustralia-dev
Follow @openaustralia on
twitter

62. Go to
software.openaustralia.org

63. Join one of the
upcoming Hackfests

65. Make something for
OpenAustralia.org
or
Build something new
using the data / API

66. Photo Credits
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baureihe143.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Airbus_A380_blue_sky.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IMG_9988.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Early_portable_tv.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lance-Armstrong-TdF2004.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morse_Telegraph_1837.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bushtr82repro.JPG
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ericsson_bakelittelefon_1931.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sylvar/348629926/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/transkamp/54371294/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zhasper/3626373279/

67. Questions