Iceland votes for crowdsourced constitution
Philippa Warr,
Wired UK,
Oct 23, 2012
The main provisions of Iceland's proposed constitution, drafted thoughwide open consultation (including social media), were supported in a referendum Sunday. The story is in most of the tech papers; Wired was one fo the few linking to actual external resources. While I couldn't find the text of the proposed constitution I found this paper which has quite an impressibe list of rights and clearly shows what new rights Icelanders voted for themselves (as most other people would, were they to live in democracies too): freedom of the press, right to fair compensation, right to health care, right to safe working conditions, rights of children guaranteed, right to a reasonable standard of living, and the right to view government information. You may think this is not relevant, but then there's this report showing American child poverty is the second-highest among developed nations, and you wonder what their education outcomes would be were tbhis not the case, and what the poverty rate would be were Americans to have Iceland's new constitution.
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