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Welcome to We the People on WhiteHouse.gov. This tool provides you with a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country. If a petition gets enough support, White House staff will review it, ensure it’s sent to the appropriate policy experts, and issue an official response.

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How We the People works in 3 easy steps

Step #1

Create or Sign a Petition

Anyone 13 or older can create or sign a petition on WhiteHouse.gov asking the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country. To get started you’ll need to create an account and verify your email address. Start thinking about the issues that matter to you, what you would like the Obama Administration to do to address the important challenges facing our country, and who you’ll ask to join you.

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Step #2

Build Support and Gather Signatures

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On our way to Gov2.0, White House seems ahead of France...

Micro-participation is a term that’s been discussed within open government circles as a way to make citizen engagement more convenient, effective, and scalable. The idea is to fit civic activity and involvement into the everyday lives of the public, resulting in more small ways to collaborate and communicate.

New Team Structure

No more pyramids, job titles or direct reports.

Everyone is a member, and every member gets an equal binding vote. When people first join they are contributors. Votes are recorded, but are non-binding. This way, teams can get a sense of the crowd’s voice but ultimately the team members drive the direction of the project.

Contributors are nominated to be members, and are voted in by the core team. The core team is a subset of the members who can vote in new members.

Anyone can be nominated to any level in an open enterprise, and everyone is accountable to eachother. The result is a healthy and dynamic hierarchy replaces the rigid proscribed one.

FRANCE

• Pour l’entrée en matière sur le sujet de l’ouverture des données publiques, lire l’article : Qu’est ce que l’opendata ? Des exemples emblématiques.

• Le gouvernement français a lancé son projet de création d’une plateforme nationale de données publiques : data.gouv.fr

• La Commission Européenne demande à la France d’ouvrir à la concurrence les marchés publics ayant pour objet l’achat de certaines données géographiques.

• Regardscitoyens publie le résultat de leur étude sur les lobbys à l’Assemblée Nationale, fruit d’un travail de crowdsourcing qui a mobilisé 3000 internautes volontaires. Voir la visualisation des résultats.

• Un nouvel acteur dans l’actualité liée aux données : les data news de Data-journalism où vous apprendrez notamment, données à l’appui, que minuit n’est pas l’heure du crime.

Je reproduis ici les liens français, mais la liste couvre aussi quelques villes (Nantes, Rennes, etc.), ainsi que d'autres pays (Etats-unis, Australie, Canada, Espagne, Finlande, etc.)

Environmentalists may not change. In a way it's almost irrelevant whether environmentalists change and take the lead because the political situation suggests that we don't have the global institutions to deal with a global problem. A lot of the best information comes from the United Nations, the United Nations studies on cities and slums and things like this and population are about the best source you can find.

If it weren't there, we wouldn't have good information about those things, but it does not have administrative power. We probably don't want a planetary government but I suspect that if we go too far down climate catastrophe that could be something you wind up with, a bad planetary government. What you want is planetary collaboration mainly of the main governments that exist now.

STEWART BRAND is cofounder and co-chairman of The Long Now Foundation. He is the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, cofounder of The Well, and cofounder of Global Business Network.

Ultimately, what this implies is that the future of the global political economy is one of increasing moves toward a global system of governance, or a world government, with a world central bank and global currency; and that, concurrently, these developments are likely to materialize in the face of and as a result of a decline in democracy around the world, and thus, a rise in authoritarianism. What we are witnessing is the creation of a New World Order, composed of a totalitarian global government structure.

It is imperative that the world’s people throw their weight against these “solutions” and usher in a new era of world order, one of the People’s World Order; with the solution lying in local governance and local economies, so that the people have greater roles in determining the future and structure of their own political-economy, and thus, their own society. With this alternative of localized political economies, in conjunction with an unprecedented global population and international democratization of communication through the internet, we have the means and possibility before us to forge the most diverse manifestation of cultures and societies that humanity has ever known.