In this episode, we will be officially explaining about the aims and goals of Designing Open Democracy for this year.

This was recorded as part of a February Designing Open Democracy Melbourne Australia meetup event "Designing Open Democracy 2020 Primer" that was held on 2020-02-21

During this primer, we were also joined in the Audience by a few members of other democracy related organisations. One was Kimbra White from MOSAICLAB as well as Willow from Coalition of Everyone.

• Kimbra White (Director for MosaicLab) : http://www.mosaiclab.com.au/
• Willow Berzin​ (Founder for Coalition of Everyone) : https://www.coalitionofeveryone.com/

https://www.meetup.com/DesigningOpenDemocracy/events/268596525/

Discuss: https://discuss.designingopendemocracy.com/t/podcast-designing-open-democracy-2020-primer/193

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Designing Open Democracy Primer 2020 Meeting Notes (DOD, Feb 2020)

Current actors in this space that we are aware of

• MiVote, Horizon State
• Flux, SecureVote

• NewVote

• Politico

• Linux Conference Australia

• Open Democracy (UK)

• Can we find a way to get democracy R&D? (Network of international groups and orgs)

• GovHack

• AngryAussie (YouTube) was part of the "trust as a concept" panel last year.

• New Democracy Foundation

• Code For Australia (Civic Tech)

4 Elements of a healthy society?

• Mechanism
• Law
• Finance
• Cultural
• Media
• Education

Changemakers?

• Passions
• High Schoolers