Wiki Content Creation Project

The goal of the Content Creation Project is to have short/summarized articles on important/core topics. Articles should be factual in nature and provide references when possible. Where possible, a section telling people how they can get involved should be present. Any website can be used to get information (doesn't have to be just Wikipedia)'

Charlie's Trello: https://trello.com/b/P5xdCf43/open-democracy-wiki

Here are some initial ideas for content (open to suggestions):

• Democracy in the work place: Community owned businesses and related topics (how they're formed, existing examples, what they were able to achieve etc). We'll be writing multiple articles, covering as much as possible. The goal is to inform citizens with the necessary information and help them learn how they can create and manage these kinds of organizations.
• DAO - Decentralized autonomous organization (definition, similar concepts [cooperatives], existing examples in the real world)
• Businesses that can be managed online or through software (e.g. a publicly-owned Taxi app). Real-world examples that failed or have been successful
• Community business: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_business , combine with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_ownership
• (another website) Community-Owned Business: How Citizens Are Filling Local Needs Through Shared Vision and Investment
• Cooperative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative , Consumers' co-operative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_co-operative
• Legal aspects of the topic e.g. creating a business, having it registered and recognized for tax purposes and so on
• Existing Examples in the real world (would be great to have a dedicated page on these examples)
  • bHive (in Australia). Two of their projects:
  • https://bhive.coop/current-projects/car-sharing/ (Bendigo Car Sharing Cooperative) (an article on this, how it was formed, what its doing etc)
  • Villages: https://bhive.coop/current-projects/villages/
  • Any other examples
• Government by algorithm
• sub-topics1
• Meta-page: Summary, short examples, function
• Non-partisan_democracy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-partisan_democracy
• Compulsory voting (do later)

Latest Updates

Created articles:

• Citizens’ Assembly
• Workplace Democracy
• Decentralized Autonomous Organization
• Community Business

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Previous topics (we'll will look at this later)

• Aggregation of links for organizations/groups involved in improving government
• Summarized analysis of the above
• Countries which have been successful in implementing Open/improved democracy to varying degrees
• Participatory budgeting (how its done, what are the required time frames etc (suggested by Nick)
• Community owned businesses (definition, types of these businesses, how they're created, existing examples of these businesses)