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3 Men in a Blog - A Constitution - Ruf Cut
A wee discussion on community councils, localness, Scottish constitution, Nordic Horizons, Icelandic crowd-sourced constitution making.
Features Donnacha McGloinn, Norrie Stewart, Phil Attridge & Stewart Lochhead.
Features Donnacha McGloinn, Norrie Stewart, Phil Attridge & Stewart Lochhead.
522 Candidates run for Icelandic Constitutional Assembly
Interview with Guðrún Pétursdóttir, Chair of the Constitutional Advisory Committee. Here she discusses the beautiful way the Icelandic National Broadcaster RÚV showcased each of the 522 Icelandic citizens that ran to be one of the 25 elected to…
Art, Nature, Deliberation Icelandic Citizen's Gathering
The Constitutional Society of Iceland held a extraordinary civic event, melding performance art, walks throughout the surrounding nature, and discussions on the society we want to live in. Performances by Kársnes Children‘s Choir and ritual by…
Birgitta Jónsdóttir Discusses Iceland's Constitutional Convention Experience
Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Member of Icelandic Parliament discusses the recent convention accomplishments and heartaches of reform.
Full interview with Dee Shanger seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N6GiSrAkAU
Full interview with Dee Shanger seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N6GiSrAkAU
Can You Hear Us Now
In 2012, by a 2/3ds vote, the Icelandic people told its parliament to enact a constitution "based on" a constitution a citizen council had drafted. Four years later, they have done nothing. Help us show the politicians who they work for.
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Smari McCarthy's talk on how Scotland can learn from what happened in Iceland when the people wanted to set up a new constitution. He outlines the road-blocks and traps which were put in the way by the lawyers, politicians, the…
Smari McCarthy's talk on how Scotland can learn from what happened in Iceland when the people wanted to set up a new constitution. He outlines the road-blocks and traps which were put in the way by the lawyers, politicians, the…
Crowdsourcing the Constitution - Lessons from Iceland
Smari McCarthy's talk on how Scotland can learn from what happened in Iceland when the people wanted to set up a new constitution. He outlines the road-blocks and traps which were put in the way by the lawyers, politicians, the establishment and the…
Crowdsourcing the Icelandic Constitution? Where are we at... An interview with Robert Bjarnason
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Robert Bjarnason, president and co-founder of citizens foundation in Iceland is introducing the successful projects he has been leading the past years including Your Priorities ( https://www.yrpri.org ) Betri Reykjavik (Better…
Robert Bjarnason, president and co-founder of citizens foundation in Iceland is introducing the successful projects he has been leading the past years including Your Priorities ( https://www.yrpri.org ) Betri Reykjavik (Better…
Finnur Magnusson -- How to Write a Constitution in the 21st Century
Encina Hall, Stanford University
March 11, 2013
Finnur Magnussson, Former CTO, Icelandic Constitutional Council
How to Write a Constitution in the 21st Century
The Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford University organized a conference on…
March 11, 2013
Finnur Magnussson, Former CTO, Icelandic Constitutional Council
How to Write a Constitution in the 21st Century
The Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford University organized a conference on…
Google Docs & The Icelandic Constitution
Thor Gylfason explains how and why Iceland used Docs to write their constitution in 2012.
More about Docs and constitution drafting: https://youtu.be/1OA1z6GbMQc
More about Docs and constitution drafting: https://youtu.be/1OA1z6GbMQc
Greatest lesson Vilhjálmur Þorsteinsson
Icelandic Constitutional Council member, Vilhjálmur Þorsteinsson tells us his top lesson learned from the 2011 drafting process.
To learn more about this extraordinary event and efforts to preserve its…
To learn more about this extraordinary event and efforts to preserve its…
Hélène Landemore: Re-Thinking Democracy in the 21st Century
April 9, 2014
Professor Landemore's research interests include democratic theory, theories of justice, the philosophy of social sciences, and the history of thought. Professor Landemore is currently working on a new project on democratic innovations…
Professor Landemore's research interests include democratic theory, theories of justice, the philosophy of social sciences, and the history of thought. Professor Landemore is currently working on a new project on democratic innovations…
How Iceland Crowdsourced A New Constitution (Lawrence Lessig)
"So, in 2008, Iceland's economy totally collapsed. And when the Icelandic people looked around to try to see what had failed them, they recognized it was their government, a corrupted government that had failed them. And so, they started a process to…
How to start a revolution: Learn from Iceland!
Song: DEAD PEOPLE Artist: PARRAMON
The people of Iceland forced their corrupt government to resign.
A public assembly was created to rewrite the constitution.
The banks were nationalized, it was decided not to pay the debt that PRIVATE banks…
The people of Iceland forced their corrupt government to resign.
A public assembly was created to rewrite the constitution.
The banks were nationalized, it was decided not to pay the debt that PRIVATE banks…
Iceland Had a Revolution and No One Noticed | The Rubin Report
At the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. But the mainstream media really hasn't covered the revolution that has occurred there in past few years.
The crisis in Iceland resulted in Icelanders recovering their…
The crisis in Iceland resulted in Icelanders recovering their…
Iceland Revolution Project - Interview with Dr. Guðrún Pétursdóttir
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Dr. Guðrún Pétursdóttir Chairman of the Constitutional Committee preparing the Constitutional Assembly talks about the role of the Constitutional Committee and the relations between the people and…
Dr. Guðrún Pétursdóttir Chairman of the Constitutional Committee preparing the Constitutional Assembly talks about the role of the Constitutional Committee and the relations between the people and…
Iceland's new constitution in the works: Gudrun Pétursdóttir
Iceland's banking collapse is the largest suffered by any country in economic history (relative to the size of its economy). As one of the reactions to the crisis, the Icelandic people are drafting a new collaborative constitution, by the…