The Tech We Need for 21st Century Democracy with Divya Siddarth

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🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Democracy in action has looked the same for generations. What would an upgrade look like - not just for democracy, but for all the different places that democratic decision-making happens? On this episode of Your Undivided Attention, we’re joined by political economist and social technologist Divya Siddarth, one of the world's leading experts in collective intelligence.

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0:00.0	All those in favor say aye.
0:06.4	This is what democracy and action sounds like right now.
0:09.4	All those opposed say no.
0:11.4	Yeah!
0:14.4	And pretty much what it sounded like for generations.
0:17.0	Outside of Congress, constituents go to a building once a year or so
0:20.4	and put little black dots on a piece of paper where we vote for people
0:23.4	who more often than not don't even represent some of the things that we actually want.
0:28.6	While our technology gets more sophisticated,
0:30.6	our forms of democracy have stayed much the same.
0:33.8	And so what would an upgrade look like?
0:36.2	I'm not just talking about voting booths and the floors of Congress.
0:39.2	I'm talking about all the different places the democratic decision making
0:42.2	actually happens in ways that affect us,
0:45.0	on school boards and within companies,
0:47.0	on city councils, and even governance at the online platforms
0:50.2	many of us use every day.
0:52.2	Today on your innovative attention,
0:53.6	we're going to give listeners a bit of a tour of some of the new tools
0:56.4	that are emerging that could rapidly help us upgrade democratic decision making
0:59.8	with collective intelligence.
1:01.8	I'm joined by political economist and social technologist Divya Siddharth,
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