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Russia: Crowd-Sourced Citizen Lawmaking Platform

Written byAlexey Sidorenko

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Posted 28 October 2011 11:55 GMT

The Economist writes about WikiVote (e.g. see projects dedicated to the laws on education, Sberbank, state-owned bank), 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.’

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