Cases of Political Crowdsourcing in Morocco Tarik Nesh-Nash Software Centre 15 Feb 2013

Crowdsourcing and democracy Hypotheses ➲ Crowdsourcing is to use the collective wisedom of the crowd to make decisions. ➲ Democracy is to enable the rule of the crowd (the people) ➲ Crowdsourcing is democracy

Internet : The Fifth Estate ➲ The citizen/crowd is empowered to directly influence the public sphere. ➲ The relationship between citizens and the different estates of the government. ➲ Open and Participative democracy : ➲ An alternative system. ➲ Initiatives and innovations of citizens and civil society

Reforme:ma Constitutional Drafting

Methodology and Results ➲ 150,000 visited the site to read the constitution ➲ 10,000 amendments to the constitution were submitted ➲ The conclusions were presented to the national committee of constitutional drafting ➲ Other countries like Tunisia and Egypt were inspired from this methodology

Marsad.ma : Elections monitoring

Marsad.ma Results ➲ 80,000 visitors ➲ 1,500 submitted reports ➲ Findings were published on the OMDH election monitoring report ➲ Some reports were submitted to court

Mamdawrinch : Fighting corruption

Floussna.ma : Budget Transparency

Challenges ➲ High illiterary rate ➲ Digital gap ➲ Security ➲ Trustworthiness ➲ Institutional and legal framework

Projects in Progress in Morocco ➲ It is a small international community. So we are crosslearning quickly : Open Budget Open Parlement Focus on Local governance E-Petitions ➲...

Sine Qua Non condition ➲ The right activation of the constitution Freedom of expression Right to access to information Empower the citizen and the civil society (petitions, etc)

A systemic change ➲ for an open and participative democracy, ➲ For better transparency and governance ➲ For better accountability ➲ For better development