The paper describes an innovative approach to lawmaking. A draft of a law is split into segments and is improved by a network community which members can vote for the segments and suggest their own versions. The case of the Russian Law on Education crowdsourcing improvement is discussed.

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10. The generalized scheme of collaborative
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11. We improve the documents that will shape the
future
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12. Starting in 2010, a number of collaborative projects
for the improvement of Russian Federation
legislative proposals have taken place, including the
following:
• Collaborative improvement of the Russian Law on
Education
• Collaborative improvement of the Russian Law on
Fisheries
• Collaborative improvement of the Russian Law on
Social Services
• zakon.government.ru
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13. A recent case of the described strategy is the Russian Law on
Education improvement implemented at http://edu.crowdexpert.ru/
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15. Public consultations on the new Russian Bill on Fisheries (http://r.zakon-
fom.ru/). It attracted more than 5 300 Russian Citizens, who made more
than 2 000 comments and created about 300 versions of the Bill items.
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16. Users Versions Objects Comments
Draft v.1 808 2169
5362 67
Draft v.2 287 1787
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17. In September 05 – October 2011 we organized public consultations on the
new Russian Law on Social Services draft http://s.zakon-fom.ru/ More
than 1100 Russian citizens joined the project. They made more than 1000
comments and created about 400 versions of the items.
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18. Based on the Wikivote platform, the zakon.government.ru site was
launched on March 1st, 2012, providing a system for the public
examination of draft laws of the Russian Federation.
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19. • The most voted versions form
Improved
document
the improved document
Human capital • The most productive authors are
selected for the next projects
Society loyalty
• The public expertise give the
society a better understanding
of the law and increase the
loyalty to a government
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20. • Effective conversion of the civic activists’ energy in a
constructive collaboration with the government starting
with a narrow field.
• Reducing the field of a social or political crisis by
improving the social environment consideration.
• Search for the new solutions not noticed by the official
experts.
• Expanding the expert network with skillful and
knowledgeable experts.
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21. Obrigado pela vossa atenção
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