Talk:Open politics

The concepts of open politics and open source politics are mostly the same, therefore I suggest to merge the definitions. Guy West Gywst 12:07, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the one who wrote about open politics made one mistake. Openness and transparency are two different terms. Inclusion of transparency into openness make pretty much confusion in terminology. I suppose the name created by Markus Schatten (top politics meaning transparent, open, public) is more articulatedand precise not giving possibility of making misakes.

That is an actual reason I gave up from term open politcs even though I wrote some articles about it several years ago.

Gordan Ponjavic Tiaktiv

Open institution democracy

A new form of democracy was proposed and publicly debated this month (August 2007). Two institutions were proposed: 1) open electoral system; and 2) open legislature. For details and references, see: Talk:Participatory_democracy#Open_institution_democracy.

I am wondering, should we describe this on Wikipedia? And where, exactly? --Michael Allan 15:46, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article was a mess

There were a lot of contradictions within this article about what "open politics" means. At its heart, the idea seems to be that of a community of people making political decisions together, using the internet. The Howard Dean campaign was not an example of open politics - there was a lot of online communication, but none of it was used to affect the political platform: I don't believe Dean ever asked his supporters what his stance should be on some political issue. DKosopedia, SourceWatch and Wikipedia aren't examples of open politics either - they produce information collaboratively, but not decisions. I tried to remove what I thought were irrelevant examples. I also tried to remove personal opinions (who says that wikis are good for "open politics" but blogs aren't?) some irrelevant stuff about Green Party lawsuits, and external links - some were broken, and some were about "open source politics" - if these two concepts are different (I don't know if they are), then those links don't belong here. Yaron K. (talk) 14:42, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merging with Open source governance

I think they should be merged, they pretty much cover most of the same material.--205.153.101.8 (talk) 17:57, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. They should be merged. Miloshd7 (talk) 11:52, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]