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Wifi access Network: OLD Login: prince password : 06PVzl9b #OLDP Live streaming: http://bit.ly/ODLParis. 3 worlds far away so close. Academia Webdeveloppers & hacktivists Parliaments. our cognition of what a legislature is depends of the available instruments of communication.
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Wifi access Network: OLD Login: prince password: 06PVzl9b #OLDP Live streaming: http://bit.ly/ODLParis
3 worlds far away so close • Academia • Webdeveloppers & hacktivists • Parliaments
our cognition of what a legislature is depends of the available instruments of communication
Séance du parlement de Bourgogne, sous la présidence de Charles le Téméraire vers 1470 Recueil de Gaignières. Maisons étrangères, fol. 38v - 39(d'après un original du XVe siècle) Dessin, XVIIe siècleBNF, Estampes et photographie, fonds Gaignières 1325, RES OB-10-FOL
2 questions • Are ICT (information and communications technologies) a chance for legislatures? • What is the goodness of fit between legislatures & ICT?
1. ICT are challenging legislatures • A threat for the law-making function • A chance for the democratic control by citizens
A threat for the law-making function • Parliaments are both judges & juries • The inefficiency of legislation • Sovereignty • Stability
A chance for the democratic control by the citizens • The last step of the de-monopolization process • An opportunity to concretize the fiction of the Tribunal of public opinion • … a risk of focussing too much on surgeries activities
number of written questions in West European legislatures (100 = 1990)
2. Which goodness of fits between ICT and parliaments? Some obvious differences on the conception of territories (bounded or not) and of power (vertical/centralized vs. networks) But…
The fitness between ICT & legislatures • Transparency & the great number of data • The logic of packets “Imagine a sausage cut into pieces that are sent here and there. And at the end, the sausage arrives safe and sound” Albertine Meunier • A creative process of aggregation / disaggregation of reality
The discrepancy between ICT & legislatures Parliaments are: • a group of different guys that: • stay physically in the same place, • talk, • take decision after talking, • without using physical violence -> a pre-modern process of moderation of power through pluralism & speech that can not really be told by ICT