1) The document discusses the M5S Electronic Parliament project, which aims to develop an online platform to allow citizens to directly write and propose laws using collective intelligence. 2) It describes how the project enhances an existing e-democracy software called LiquidFeedback to include legal formatting checks and the ability to directly submit citizen-proposed laws to the Italian legislature. 3) The platform integrates the Akoma Ntoso legal document standard and uses the AT4AM editor to write and amend laws, representing an effort to move beyond the limits of representative democracy towards more direct citizen participation in lawmaking.

1. Discovering eDemocracy
and in-depth preview of
M5S Electronic Parliament
(legal aspects)
ICAIL 2013: XIV International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Davide Barillari, Rome, 06/10/013

2. None of us can know everything, but together we are able to
know everything.
It does not exist a problem that has no solution... if we unite
our minds to solve it.

3. DEVELOPING COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
Collective intelligence (aka Symbiotic intelligence)
is a theory that describes a type of shared or group
intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and
competition of many individuals
TOGETHER WE CAN FIND THE BETTER
SOLUTION
The collective intelligence has to involve ALL the citizens, without regard
to individual intelligence, experience, skills, relationships with other
groups or individuals. Not only by vote (online voting, polls, ..). Not only
by discussions (forums, blogs, social networks..). Discussing problems
before voting raises awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of
the opportunities and risks, and allows people to evaluate alternatives
and suggest others. This shared common view is not altered by social
hierarchies and inequalities of knowledge.

4. eDEMOCRACY IS HERE
E-democracy (a combination of the words electronic
and democracy) is the use of information and
communications technologies and strategies by
'democratic sectors' within the political processes of
local communities, states/regions, nations and on
the global stage.
E-democracy means direct democracy,
based on collective intelligence.
M5S wants to exceed the current limits of representative
democracy, trying to engage citizens in the full legislative
process (for the first time in Italy).

5. HOW ?
Since summer 2012 a WORK TEAM (called “gruppo connettivita' M5S
Lazio”) is working to evaluate the major edemocracy and online voting
tools (liquid feedback, openDCN, airesis, …).
We have involved for the first time in a regional context a segment of the
population to write a highly participated and shared program for political
elections. 500 users joined the writing process, suggesting more than
400 proposals in less than 2 months. These proposals, result of
collective intelligence, were modified, enhanced and amended on the
net. At the end all the proposals were voted by thousands of
citizens, and then included into the 2013 regional elections.
TEST DONE!
POSITIVE FEEDBACK
Now it's time for a big jump into the future of edemocracy...
Tavolo di lavoro

6. What is LIQUID FEEDBACK
LiquidFeedback is an open-source software, powering internet platforms
for proposition development and decision making.
It introduces a new communication channel between voters and
representatives, delivers reliable results about what the participants want
and can be used for information, suggestion, or directive depending on
the organizational needs and the national legislation.
Users can write a proposal and
discuss it with all the other
users.
All users can modify the original
proposal, and the more
“appreciated” suggested
enhancements are voted.
At the end, we have the better
solution built with the
contribution of all the users.

7. Main question: crowdsourcing to create laws
Is it possible for people to be able to
write their own laws?

8. ...our step beyond the Pillars of Hercules...
We modified the code of
LiquidFeedback.
We expanded its core.
We enhanced user interface, security,
functions, data integrity,
internal editing...and more !
The project is called “PARLAMENTO ELETTRONICO” (electronic
parliament): it's now in alpha state and it will be released internally this
summer.
Any normal citizen can now write its own law, in a standard format
with legal checks, share it with the net and then bring it directly in
the legislature thanks to M5S representatives.
WE ARE READY. It will be Italy ?WE ARE READY. It will be Italy ?

9. M5S ELECTRONIC PARLIAMENT - RELEASE 1.0 PREVIEW

10. M5S ELECTRONIC PARLIAMENT - RELEASE 1.0 PREVIEW

12. M5S ELECTRONIC PARLIAMENT -legal aspects
The M5S Electronic Parliament integrates in its internal editor (AT4AM) the open
format AKOMA NTOSO.
The AT4AM editor has been enhanced for more usability with Liquid Feedback.

13. AKOMA NTOSO
DOCUMENT FORMAT ADOPTED BY ITALIAN SENATE
since February 013 as common standard for
parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents.
All the bills published on the Italian Senate website are available, other than in the usual
HTML, PDF, and ePub formats, also in XML, using an Akoma Ntoso compliant scheme.
The Italian Senate, in the wake of the European Parliament, has also joined the growing
number of parliaments supporting Akoma Ntoso as common to support more effective
management of information and long-term preservation of formal documentation.
Akoma Ntoso is the result of the efforts of the Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan to realize a
common standard for the interchange of legal documents among institutions and countries.
Building on the opportunities offered by open standards, it aims at supporting the
development of high-value parliamentary and legislative information services.
http://www.akomantoso.org M5S ELECTRONIC PARLIAMENT USES
AKOMA NTOSO COMMON STANDARD
TO WRITE LAWS
(in collaboration with University of Bologna)

14. AT4AM for All
AT4AM for All is the free / open source release of AT4AM, the
web-based amendment authoring tool used at the European
Parliament.
AT4AM is the web-based amendment authoring tool used with great success at the
European Parliament since February 2010 by Members and their assistants, and advisors
of the political groups to create and table amendments on the proposals of the European
Commission and the Council of the European Union, and the reports of the parliamentary
committees.
AT4AM is the first system of the future XML-based workflow of amendments at the
European Parliament.
Compared to the previous Word-based system, the great benefits of AT4AM are a much
better quality of the amendments, and an easier and faster process of creating, sharing,
tabling, registering, ordering and verifying amendments focused on content and no more on
formatting.
http://www.at4am.org
M5S ELECTRONIC PARLIAMENT
USES AT4AM EDITOR
TO AMEND LAWS

15. THE TIME FOR eDEMOCRACY IS ARRIVED
We are approaching a new golden time for our democracy, cause
we are going to return the power to the people.
Really.
Political movements that do not have the courage to resign their
hierarchical structures, do not involve all their electors in all the
decisional processes, or do not pursue collective interests, will
extinguish in a short time.
Boosting Collective Intelligence

16. JOIN THE REVOLUTION!
Connect with us via Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/discussione.parlamento.m5slazio
Connect with us via Email:
dbarillari@regione.lazio.it, emanuele.sabetta@gmail.com
Join the developers team via Github:
https://github.com/Movimento5StelleLazio/ParlamentoElettronicoM5S
/wiki
Boosting Collective Intelligence
More details about the project:
http://digitaldividemilano.com/connettivita-ita
lia/parlamento-elettronico/
Progetto Parlamento Elettronico
REGIONALE del M5S v0.15
https://pdfzen.com/26b80e