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Russia: Crowd-Sourced Citizen Lawmaking Platform

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Russia, Governance, Ideas, Law, Technology, RuNet Echo

The Economist writes [1] about WikiVote (e.g. see projects dedicated to the laws on education [2], Sberbank, state-owned bank [3]), Russian croudsourcing platform to comment and contribute to the creation of the laws. Pavel Burov, creator of the platform, claims his project can ‘prevent idiocy [in lawmaking] from happening.’